The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2002

Transfers of eligibility

34.—(1) An eligible part-time student may request the Secretary of State to transfer his eligibility in any case where—

(a)on the recommendation of the academic authority the student starts to undertake another part-time course at the institution;

(b)with the . . . consent of the academic authority of the institution concerned . . . the student starts to undertake a part-time course at another institution; or

(c)after commencing a part-time course for a first degree (other than an honours degree) the student is before the completion of that course admitted to a part-time course for an honours degree in the same subject or subjects at the institution.

(2) . . . The Secretary of State, on being satisfied of the matters referred to in paragraph (1) and that the second course is a designated part-time course, shall transfer the eligible part-time student’s eligibility, and thenceforth the student shall for all purposes be an eligible part-time student in connection with his undertaking the second course, whether or not he may have been so eligible if he had applied under regulation 32.

(3) An eligible part-time student’s eligibility as such may not be transferred after it has expired or been terminated under regulation 36.