PART 12QUALIFYING FOR SUPPORT DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR

Qualifying for a tuition fee loan during the academic year80.

(1)

Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs within 3 months of the first day of the academic year, the student may qualify for a tuition fee loan in respect of that academic year.

(2)

The events are—

(a)

the present course becomes a designated course;

(b)

the student becomes an eligible student on the grounds that—

F1(i)

the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee, becomes a person granted stateless leave, becomes a person with leave to enter or remain or becomes a person granted humanitarian protection under paragraph 339C of the immigration rules;

F2(ia)

the student or the student’s parent becomes a person with section 67 leave to remain;

(ii)

a state accedes to the European Union where the student is a national of that state or a family member of a national of that state;

(iii)

the student becomes a family member of an EU national F3or of a person who is eligible under paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 2 by virtue of paragraph 6(1A) of that Schedule other than as a family member;

F4(iv)

the student becomes a person described in paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 2;

(v)

the student becomes a child of a Turkish worker;

(vi)

the student becomes a person described in paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 2;

(vii)

the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.

(3)

In this regulation and regulation 81, the following terms have the same meaning as in Schedule 2—

“child” (“plentyn”);

“family member” (“aelod o deulu”) (within the meaning given by paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 2);

F5“immigration rules” (“rheolau mewnfudo”);

“parent” (“rhiant”);

F6“person granted stateless leave” (“person y rhoddwyd caniatâd iddo aros fel person diwladwriaeth”)

“person with leave to enter or remain” (“person sydd â chaniatâd i ddod i mewn neu i aros”);

F7“person with section 67 leave to remain” (“person sydd â chaniatâd i aros o dan adran 67”);

“refugee” (“ffoadur”);

“right of permanent residence” (“hawl i breswylio'n barhaol”);

“Turkish worker” (“gweithiwr Twrcaidd”).