The Student Support (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Persons eligible for allowance

7.—(1) The Scottish Ministers may pay an allowance in accordance with this Part to, or in respect of any person undertaking—

(a) a course of pre-registration nursing and midwifery education leading to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council(1), or

(b) an undergraduate degree programme in pre-registration paramedic science education leading to eligibility to apply for registration as a paramedic with the Health and Care Professions Council(2),

who is a person described in one or more paragraphs of schedule 1.

(2) In paying an allowance, the Scottish Ministers may determine to—

(a) pay different allowances for different purposes, and

(b) impose different terms and conditions in relation to different allowances.

(3) Schedule 3 is to have effect for the purposes of determining whether a person is to be treated, for the purposes of schedule 1 as being, or having been, ordinarily resident in a place at, or for, a particular time.

(1)

The Nursing and Midwifery Council, a body corporate, was established by Article 3 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order (2001) (S.I. 2002/253).

(2)

The Health and Care Professionals Council, a regulatory body, was established by Article 3 of the Health Professions Order 2001 (S.I. 2002/254).