The Education (Fees, Awards and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2016

Amendment of the Education (Student Loans for Tuition Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

5.—(1) The Education (Student Loans for Tuition Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In Schedule 1 (eligible students) after paragraph 6A insert—

“6B.   A person who—

(a) (i) is a Syrian national who has been granted humanitarian protection to enter the United Kingdom under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme 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 humanitarian protection 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 or child of a person of the kind described in subparagraph (a) and who is ordinarily resident in Scotland on the first day of the first academic year of the course.”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2006/333, amended by S.S.I. 2007/158 and 503, 2009/188, 189 and 309, 2010/300, 2012/72, 2013/80 and S.I. 2010/1010.