The Education (Student Support) ( No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Students becoming eligible in the course of an academic yearN.I.

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74.—(1) Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of such quarters in respect of which a loan for living costs is payable as begin after the relevant event occurs.

(2) The events are—

(a)the student’s course becomes a designated course;

(b)the student, or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee [F1or becomes a person granted humanitarian protection] [F2or becomes a person granted stateless leave] or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain [F3on the grounds of discretionary leave] ;

(c)the state of which the student is a national accedes to the European Community where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;

[F4(d)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 3 (a) of Schedule 2;]

(e)the student becomes the child of a Turkish worker;

(f)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 2; F5...

(g)the student becomes the child of a Swiss national [F6; F7...]

[F8(h)the student becomes a person granted section 67 leave [F9;]]

[F10( i)the student becomes a person granted Calais leave;]

[F11(j)the student becomes a person granted indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner; or]

[F12(k)the student becomes a person granted indefinite leave to remain as a victim of domestic violence or domestic abuse.]

(3) An eligible student to whom paragraph (1) applies does not qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

(4) The maximum amount of loan for living costs payable is the aggregate of the maximum amount of loan for living costs for each quarter in respect of which the student qualifies for the loan for living costs under this regulation.

(5) The maximum amount of loan for living costs for each quarter is one third of the maximum amount of loan for living costs which would apply for the academic year if the student fell into the category which applies to the relevant quarter for the duration of the academic year.

(6) The maximum amount of long courses loan payable is the aggregate of the maximum amount of long courses loan for each quarter in respect of which the student qualifies for the long courses loan under this regulation.

(7) The maximum amount of long courses loan for each quarter is one [F13fourth] of the maximum amount of long courses loan which would apply for the academic year if the student fell into the category which applies to the relevant quarter for the duration of the academic year.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in reg. 74(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg.1(3)(a) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/50), regs. 1(3)(a), 10(d)

F2Words in reg. 74(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/50), regs. 1(3)(a), 16(d)

F3Words in reg. 74(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/50), regs. 1(3)(a), 18(d)

F5Word in reg. 74(2)(f) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(5) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Education (Student Support (No.2), etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/35), regs. 1(3), 21(a)

F6Word in reg. 74(2)(g) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(5) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support (No.2), etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/35), regs. 1(3), 21(b)

F7Word in reg. 74(2)(g) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg.1(3)(a) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/50), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(d)(i)

F9Word in reg. 74(2)(h) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg.1(3)(a) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/50), regs. 1(4)(a), 8(d)(ii)

F13Word in reg. 74(7) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support (No.2), etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/35), regs. 1(3), 11

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 74 in operation at 17.12.2009, see reg. 1(1)