Exception 5

The present course is a distance learning course and the student (“S”) is not in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.

But this exception does not apply where—

a

S is not in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course because S, or a close relative of S, is serving as a member of the armed forces outside Wales, or

b

S is unable to be in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course for a reason related to coronavirus.