Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 13 inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support) (No.2) (Amendment) and Education (Student Loan) (Repayment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/7), regs. 1(1), 43, Sch. 1
153.—(1) A student’s status as an eligible Master’s, etc. student is retained in connection with a designated Master’s, etc. course until the status terminates in accordance with this regulation or regulation 149.
(2) The period for which an eligible Master’s, etc. student’s status is retained is the “period of eligibility”.
(3) Subject to the following paragraphs and regulation 149, the period of eligibility terminates at the end of the academic year in which the eligible Master’s, etc. student completes the designated Master’s, etc. course.
(4) The period of eligibility terminates when the eligible Master’s, etc. student (“A”)—
(a)withdraws from A’s designated Master’s, etc. course in circumstances where the Department is not obliged under regulation 154 to transfer the student’s status as an eligible Master’s, etc. student to another course; or
(b)abandons or is expelled from the designated Master’s, etc. course.
(5) The Department may terminate the period of eligibility where the eligible Master’s, etc. student (“A”) has shown by A’s conduct that A is unfitted to receive support.
(6) If the Department is satisfied that an eligible Master’s, etc. student has failed to comply with any requirement to provide information under this Part or has provided information which is inaccurate in a material particular, the Department may take such of the following actions as the Department considers appropriate in the circumstances—
(a)terminate the period of eligibility;
(b)determine that the student no longer qualifies for a Master’s, etc. fee loan;
(c)treat any Master’s, etc. fee loan paid to the student as an overpayment which may be recovered under regulation 164 .
(7) Where the period of eligibility terminates before the end of the academic year in which the eligible Master’s, etc. student completes the designated Master’s, etc. course the Department may, at any time, renew or extend the period of eligibility for such period as the Department determines.
(8) A student who has lost the status of eligible Master’s, etc. student remains liable to repay any instalment he or she has received and ceases to be eligible for further instalments of the Master’s, etc. fee loan.]