After paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 (eligible students) to the Education (Student Loans for Tuition Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 20063 insert—

“6A.

A person who—

(a)

(i)

is an Iraqi national who has been granted indefinite leave to enter the United Kingdom under the Locally Engaged Staff Assistance Scheme (Direct Entry) operated by the Home Department;

(ii)

has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands at all times since that person was first granted such indefinite leave to enter the United Kingdom; and

(iii)

is ordinarily resident in Scotland on the first day of the first academic year of the course; or

(b)

is the spouse, civil partner, child or stepchild of a person of the kind described in sub-paragraph (a) and who is ordinarily resident in Scotland on the first day of the first academic year of the course.”.