12. After regulation 138, insert—
138A.—(1) Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of such quarters in respect of which a loan for living costs is payable as begin after the relevant event occurs.
(2) The events are—
(a)the student’s course becomes a designated part-time course;
(b)the student, or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person granted stateless leave or a person granted humanitarian protection;
(c)the state of which the student is a national accedes to the EU where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the five-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;
(d)the student acquires the right of permanent residence;
(e)the student becomes the child of a Turkish worker;
(f)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1; or
(g)the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.
(3) An eligible part-time student to whom paragraph (1) applies does not qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.
(4) The maximum amount of loan for living costs payable is the aggregate of the maximum amount of loan for living costs for each quarter in respect of which the student qualifies for the loan for living costs.
(5) The maximum amount of loan for living costs for each quarter is one third of the maximum amount of loan for living costs which would apply for the academic year if the student fell into the category which applies to the relevant quarter for the duration of the academic year.
(6) In this regulation, a “loan for living costs” means a loan for living costs under Part 11B.”.