The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 No. 74

PART 2 Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011

CHAPTER 3 Eligible students, eligible part-time students and eligible postgraduate students

Amendments relating to students becoming eligible for student support in the course of an academic year

22.  In regulation 56 (qualifying conditions for maintenance grants)(1), for paragraph (6) substitute—

“(6) Where any of the following events occur in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a maintenance grant in respect of such quarters of the academic year as begin after the relevant event occurs—

(a) a course designation event which results in the student’s course becoming a designated course; or

(b) an event falling within regulation 2A(2)(c), (d), (e) or (f), or 2A(3)(a), (b) or (c), which results in the student becoming an eligible student.”.

(1)

Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2012/1653, 2013/1728 and 2015/1951.