The Education (Fees and Awards) (England) Regulations 2007

Persons who are settled in the United Kingdom and have exercised a right of residence elsewhereE+W+S

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8.—(1) A person who—

(a)is settled in the United Kingdom;

(b)left the United Kingdom and exercised a right of residence [F1before IP completion day] after having been settled in the United Kingdom;

(c)is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the day on which the first term of the first academic year actually begins;

(d)has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising [F2the United Kingdom,] the [F3European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories] throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and

(e)in a case where his ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (d) was wholly or mainly for the purposes of receiving full-time education, was ordinarily resident in the territory comprising [F4the United Kingdom, Gibraltar,] the European Economic Area and Switzerland immediately before the period of ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (d).

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person has exercised a right of residence if he is a United Kingdom national, a family member of a United Kingdom national for the purposes of Article 7 of Directive 2004/38 (or corresponding purposes under the EEA Agreement or Swiss Agreement) or a person who [F5had the right] of permanent residence who in each case has exercised a right under Article 7 of Directive 2004/38 or any equivalent right under the EEA Agreement or Swiss Agreement in a state other than the United Kingdom or, in the case of a person who is settled in the United Kingdom and [F5had the right] of permanent residence, if he [F6has gone] to the state within the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland of which he is a national or of which the person in relation to whom he is a family member is a national.

[F7(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), a person had the right of permanent residence if they had a right which arose under Directive 2004/38 to reside permanently in the United Kingdom without restriction.]