The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

Qualifying for grants or maintenance loan during the academic yearE+W

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 [F4or a person with leave to remain as a protected partner];]

[F5(ib)the student becomes a person with Calais leave;]

F6(ii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F7(iii)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 2;]

[F8(iv)where regulation 9(1A)(a) applies, the person becomes a person described in paragraph 8(1)(a) of Schedule 2;]

(v)the student becomes a person described in [F9paragraph 4A(1)(a) of Schedule 2 or, where regulation 9(1A)(a) applies, in] paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 2;

[F10(vi)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 7A(a) of Schedule 2 or, where regulation 9(1A)(a) applies, in paragraph 7(1)(a) of Schedule 2;]

[F11(vii)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6B(1)(a)(ii) of Schedule 2.]

Textual Amendments

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