The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Amendments relating to students becoming eligible for student support in the course of an academic yearE+W

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24.—(1) In regulation 85 (students becoming eligible in the course of an academic year: loans for living costs)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—

(1) Where any of the following events occur in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of which such a loan is payable as begin after the event in question occurs—

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

(b)an in-year qualifying event (other than a settled status event) which results in the student becoming an eligible student.

(1A) Where a protected category event which results in a student becoming an eligible student occurs—

(a)in the course of the first academic year of a course; and

(b)on before the course start date,

the student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of all quarters of that academic year in respect of which a loan for living costs is payable..

(3) Omit paragraph (2).

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 24 in force at 16.2.2023, see reg. 1

(1)

Regulation 85 was amended by S.I. 2018/137, 2019/142, 2020/48, 2020/1181, 2020/1203, 2021/127, 202/1348, 2022/57 and 2022/534.