The Education (Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Transfer of status

6.—(1) Where an eligible student (“A”) transfers to another course, the Welsh Ministers must transfer A’s status as an eligible student to that course where—

(a) the Welsh Ministers receive a request from the eligible student to do so;

(b) the Welsh Ministers are satisfied that one or more of the grounds for transfer in paragraph (2) applies; and

(c) the period of eligibility has not terminated.

(2) The grounds for transfer are—

(a) on the recommendation of the academic authority A ceases one designated course and starts to undertake another designated course at the same institution; or

(b) A starts to undertake a designated course at another institution.

(3) Where A transfers under paragraph (1), A is entitled to receive in connection with the course to which A transfers, the remainder of the postgraduate master’s degree loan, if any, in accordance with regulation 13 and, where relevant, regulation 16, in respect of the course from which A transfers.