[F12A.—(1) A person—
(a)who is settled in the United Kingdom [F2on the day on which the first term of the first academic year actually begins], and does not fall within paragraph 3;
(b)who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom [F2on the day on which the first term of the first academic year actually begins];
(c)who has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the Islands and the Republic of Ireland throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and
(d)subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose ordinary residence in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the Islands and the Republic of Ireland 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 territory comprising the United Kingdom, the Islands and the Republic of Ireland in accordance with paragraph 1(3).]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. para. 2A inserted (25.4.2021) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/481), regs. 1(2), 34 (with reg. 2)
F2Words in Sch. para. 2A(1)(a)(b) substituted (31.12.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1365), regs. 1(2), 11(b)