Amendment of Student Support (No. 2) Regulations4.

(1)

The Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations 20026 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2—

(a)

in paragraph (1) after the definition of “support” insert—

““Switzerland Agreement” means the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the Free Movement of Persons signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1999 and which came into force on 1st June 2002;”;

(b)

in paragraph (3) after “European Economic Area” insert in both instances “or Switzerland”; and

(c)

in paragraph (5) after “European Economic Area” insert “or Switzerland” and in sub-paragraph (a) after “EEA Agreement” insert “, or the Switzerland Agreement”.

(3)

In Schedule 1—

(a)

in paragraph 4 after “EEA migrant worker” insert “and”;

(b)

in paragraph 4(a)—

(i)

after “EEA Agreement” insert “or Article 9(3) of Annex I to the Switzerland Agreement”, and

(ii)

replace “subject of Article 7(2) and (3)” with “subject of either of those Articles”;

(c)

in paragraph 6(1)(a)—

(i)

after “Council Regulation” insert “or Article 3(6) of Annex I to the Switzerland Agreement”, and

(ii)

replace “subject of Article 12” with “subject of either of those Articles”; and

(d)

in paragraph 8(b) and (c) after “European Economic Area” insert “or Switzerland”.