The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021
Title and commencement
1.
(1)
The title of these Regulations is the Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021.
(2)
These Regulations come into force on 1 August 2021.
Amendment to the Education (Fees and Awards) (Wales) Regulations 2007
2.
Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017
3.
4.
In regulation 46 (students residing with parents)—
(a)
in paragraph (1) for “(“A” in this paragraph)” substitute “(“A” in this regulation)”;
(b)
“(3)
Subject to paragraph (4), where A resides at A’s parents’ home for a reason only relating to coronavirus, A is treated as if A were not residing at A’s parents’ home.
(4)
Paragraph (3) does not apply where A requests that the Welsh Ministers treat them as residing at their parents’ home.”
5.
“(fa)
“coronavirus” (“coronafeirws”) means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2);”
6.
In regulations 49(2)(h) and 111(2)(e) for “the person becomes a person” substitute “the student becomes a person”.
7.
In Schedule 1—
(a)
in the Welsh text of paragraph 1(5)(b) for the full stop substitute “; ac”;
(b)
in the English text of paragraph 11A(a) for “agreements” substitute “agreement”.
Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018
8.
9.
“(4)
Subject to paragraph (5), where an eligible student is living at home for a reason only relating to coronavirus, the eligible student is treated as living in the category of location that the Welsh Ministers consider the eligible student would have been living had it not been for that reason.
(5)
Paragraph (4) does not apply where an eligible student has requested that they are treated as living at home.”
10.
For “the person becomes a person” substitute “the student becomes a person” where it occurs in—
(a)
regulation 80(2)(b)(v);
(b)
regulation 81(3)(b)(iv);
(c)
Schedule 4, paragraph 14(3)(b)(iv); and
(d)
Schedule 5, paragraph 4(2)(e).
Amendment to the Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master’s Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019
11.
These Regulations amend the Education (Fees and Awards) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”), the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (“the 2017 Regulations”), the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (“the 2018 Regulations”) and the Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master’s Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (“the 2019 Regulations”).
These Regulations amend provisions in the 2017 Regulations and the 2018 Regulations relating to the amount of maintenance support payable to an eligible student by reference to the place where they live during the quarters in which that support is payable. The amendments provide that an eligible student who lives with their parents for a reason only relating to coronavirus is treated as living in the location they would have been living had it not been for that reason, unless the student requests otherwise.
These Regulations also correct typographical errors in the 2007 Regulations, the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations and the 2019 Regulations.