After regulation 56(4) of the Student Support Regulations, insert—

“(5)

Subject to paragraph (6), a maintenance grant is payable to a qualifying student in respect of the four quarters of the academic year.

(6)

Subject to paragraph (7), where one of the events listed in regulation 17 (a), (b), (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a maintenance grant in respect of such quarters as begin after the relevant event occurs.

(7)

Where the state of which the student is a national accedes to the EU the student may qualify for the maintenance grant only if the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.”.