81.—(1) Where one of the events in paragraph (3) occurs, the eligible student may qualify for a grant or maintenance loan.
(2) But the amount of grant or loan payable to the eligible student—
[F1(a)will only, in the case of a grant, be in respect of the remaining days of the academic year, and, in the case of a maintenance loan, only be in respect of the remaining term days of the academic year, in either case beginning with the day the relevant event occurs, and]
(b)in relation to a maintenance loan, will only be payable if it is a quarter in respect of which the loan would otherwise be payable under regulation 85(6) and (7).
(3) The events are—
(a)the student's course becomes a designated course;
(b)the student becomes an eligible student on the grounds that–
[F2(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;]
[F3(ia)the student or the student’s parent becomes a person with section 67 leave to remain;]
(ii)a state of which the student is a national accedes to the European Union where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;
[F4(iii)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 2;]
(iv)the student becomes a child of a Turkish worker;
(v)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 2;
(vi)the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 81(2)(a) substituted (1.8.2018) by The Education (Student Support) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/813), regs. 1(2), 7
F2Reg. 81(3)(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), 44
F3Reg. 81(3)(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), 53