Amendment of the Education (Fees and Awards) (England) Regulations 2007
31. In Schedule 1—
(a)for paragraph 2, substitute—
“Persons who are settled in the United Kingdom
2.—(1) A person—
(a)who on the first day of the first academic year of the course—
(i)is settled in the United Kingdom other than by reason of having acquired the right of permanent residence;
(ii)is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom;
(iii)has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and
(b)subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose residence in the United Kingdom and Islands has not during any part of the period referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(iii) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.
(2) Paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands in accordance with regulation 2(4).”;
(b)for paragraph 13, substitute—
“Long Residence
13.—(1) A person—
(a)who on the first day of the first academic year of the course either—
(i)is under the age of 18 and has lived in the United Kingdom throughout the seven-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; or
(ii)is aged 18 or above and, preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course, has lived in the United Kingdom throughout either—
(aa)half their life; or
(bb)a period of twenty years;
(b)who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the first day of the first academic year of the course;
(c)who has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and
(d)subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose residence in the United Kingdom and Islands has not during any part of the period referred to in paragraph (c) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.
(2) Paragraph (d) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands in accordance with regulation 2(4).”.