PART 7COLLEGE FEE LOANS

Students becoming eligible during the course of an academic yearI183

1

Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs in the course of an academic year—

a

a student may qualify for a college fee loan in accordance with this Part in respect of that academic year provided that the relevant event occurred within the first three months of the academic year; and

b

a college fee loan is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

2

The relevant events are—

a

the student, the student’s spouse, the student’s civil partner or the student’s parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;

b

a state accedes to the European Community and the student is a national of that state or is the family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2) of a national of that state;

c

the student becomes a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2) of an EC national or would have become a family member of an EC national if the requirement to be working or self-employed in Northern Ireland had been a requirement to be working or self-employed in Scotland;

d

the student acquires the right of permanent residence;

e

the student becomes the child of a Turkish worker;

f

the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 2 or would have become such a person if the requirement to be ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland and the requirement to be working or self-employed in Northern Ireland in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 had been requirements to be ordinarily resident in Scotland or working or self-employed in Scotland;

g

the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.