These Regulations consolidate the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/200) and certain amending instruments which are revoked with transitional provisions by the Education (Graduate Endowment, Student Fees and Support) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/148).

In addition to minor and drafting alterations, these Regulations provide definitions of “EEA state”, “employment” (including “employed”) and “parent” (including “child”). Regulation 8 allows the Scottish Ministers to impose a condition on a student to provide them with that student’s United Kingdom national insurance number and regulation 9 also sets out in more detail the information to be provided to the Scottish Ministers.

Tables of Derivations and Destinations have been prepared identifying individual regulations in these Regulations with the equivalent provisions in the superseded Regulations and vice versa. Copies of the Tables may be obtained from the Scottish Executive, Higher Education and Learner Support Division, Europa Building, 450 Argyle Street Glasgow, G2 8LG. The Tables have been prepared to assist readers of the Regulations and do not have any legal effect.