PART VIIISUPPORT FOR PART-TIME COURSES

Grants for disabled part-time students' living costs33

1

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), regulation 13 shall apply in relation to an eligible part-time student in respect of his undertaking a designated part-time course as it applies in relation to an eligible student in respect of his undertaking a designated course with the substitution—

a

for the amount specified in regulation 13(2)(a) of £8,265; and

b

for the amount specified in regulation 13(2)(d) of £1,090.

2

An eligible part-time student shall be eligible for grant under this regulation if, in respect of the second and any subsequent year of his part-time course, he is ordinarily resident in England and Wales on the first day of the academic year.

3

Subject to paragraph (4), an eligible part-time student shall not be eligible for grant under this regulation if he is a prisoner serving a custodial sentence.

4

Paragraph (3) shall not apply in respect of an academic year during which the student enters prison to serve a custodial sentence or is released from prison having served such a sentence.