80.—(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”).
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 80(2)(b)(i) substituted (28.1.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Ordinary Residence) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/9), regs. 1(2), 43(a)
F2Reg. 80(2)(b)(ia) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/235), regs. 1(3)(a), 52(a)
F3Words in reg. 80(2)(b)(iii) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1302), regs. 1(3), 29(a)
F4Reg. 80(2)(b)(iv) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1302), regs. 1(3), 29(b)
F5Words in reg. 80(3) inserted (28.1.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Ordinary Residence) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/9), regs. 1(2), 43(b)
F6Words in reg. 80(3) inserted (30.7.2018) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/814), regs. 1(2), 13(b)
F7Words in reg. 80(3) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/235), regs. 1(3)(a), 52(b)