The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (European University Institute) Regulations 2010

37.  In Schedule 1, Part 2 (Eligible Students - Categories)—

(a) after paragraph (10), insert—

“10A.   A person who—

(a) is an EU national other than a United Kingdom national on the relevant date;

(b) is ordinarily resident in England on the relevant date;

(c) has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the five-year period immediately preceding the relevant date; and

(d) in a case where the person’s ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (c) was wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education, was ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland immediately prior to the period of ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (c).

(2) Where a state accedes to the EU after the relevant date and a person is a national of that state, the requirement in paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1) to be an EU national other than a United Kingdom national on the relevant date is treated as being satisfied.”;

(b) after paragraph 12, insert—

“Long Residence

13.— (1) A person—

(a) who on the relevant date either—

(i) is under the age of 18 and has lived in the United Kingdom throughout the seven-year period preceding the relevant date; or

(ii) is aged 18 years old or above and, preceding the relevant date, 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 England on the relevant date;

(c) who has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding the relevant date; 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 paragraph 1(7).”.