PART 6LOANS FOR LIVING COSTS

Interpretation of Part 649.

(1)

In this Part —

(a)

a student is in category 1 if the student resides at his or her parents' home while attending the designated course or if he or she is a member of a religious order who resides in a house of that order;

(b)

a student is in category 2 if he or she is not in category 1 and attends one or more of the following —

(i)

a course at the University of London;

(ii)

a course at an institution which requires attendance for at least half the time in aggregate of any quarter of the course in the academic year at a site wholly or partly within the area comprising the City of London and the former Metropolitan Police District; or

(iii)

a sandwich course at an institution which requires the eligible student to undertake work experience or a combination of work experience and study provided that the student undertakes such work experience or combination of work experience and study for at least half the time in aggregate of any quarter of the course in the academic year at a site or sites wholly or partly within the area comprising the City of London and the former Metropolitan Police District;

(c)

a student is in category 3 if the student is not in category 1 and the student attends an overseas institution as part of his or her course;

(d)

a student is in category 4 if the student is not in category 1 and attends the University of London Institute in Paris;

(e)

a student is in category 5 if the student is not in categories 1 to 4;

(f)

a “new system eligible student with full entitlement” (myfyriwr cymwys o dan y drefn newydd sydd”) is a new system eligible student other than a student with reduced entitlement;

(g)

an “old system eligible student with full entitlement” (“myfyriwr cymwys o dan yr hen drefn sydd â hawlogaeth lawn”)is an old system eligible student other than a student with reduced entitlement;

(h)

the “relevant date” (“dyddiad perthnasol”)means the first day of the first academic year of the specified designated course;

(i)

a “student with reduced entitlement” (“myfyriwr sydd â hawlogaeth wedi'i gostwng”) is an eligible student who—

(i)

is not eligible for a grant for living or other costs in respect of the academic year by virtue of regulation 23(3)(a) or 23(3)(b);

(ii)

is not eligible for a grant for living costs in respect of the academic year by virtue of regulation 23(3)(c) or 23(5);

(iii)

opts when applying for a loan for living costs not to provide the information needed to calculate the household income or

(iv)

where the duration of a graduate-entry or postgraduate-level course for the initial training of teachers is only one academic year, that year is not to be treated as the final year.