The Student Support (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Ordinary residence for specified period: exclusion for education purposes

3.—(1) A person is not to be treated as having been ordinarily resident in the relevant area for the specified period if the Scottish Ministers or, for the purposes of a bursary granted under regulation 26(1) (exercise of power to grant a bursary), the education authority are satisfied that that person was resident there for any part of that period wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who has acquired settled status in the United Kingdom under the Immigration Act 1971 as a result of residence for full-time education which has led to a right of permanent residence arising under Directive 2004/38, in which case the person must have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, Islands, Gibraltar or in the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland immediately before the start of that period of residence.

(3) A person who is ordinarily resident in Scotland as a result of having moved from the Islands for the purpose of undertaking a course of education is to be considered to be ordinarily resident in the Islands.

(4) A person who is ordinarily resident in Scotland as a result of having moved from a part of the United Kingdom other than Scotland for the purpose of undertaking a course of education is to be considered to be ordinarily resident in the part of the United Kingdom from where they moved.