PART 6Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

CHAPTER 2Eligibility for certain Afghan citizens

Amendments to Schedule 4 (disabled postgraduate student’s grant)39

In Schedule 4—

a

after paragraph 13E insert—

13F

1

This paragraph applies where—

a

a person (“P”) was an eligible postgraduate student by reason of them being a person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen (see Schedule 2, paragraph 2ZA) in connection with an application for disabled postgraduate student’s grant—

i

for an earlier year of the present postgraduate course, or

ii

in connection with a course from which P’s status as an eligible postgraduate student has been transferred to the present postgraduate course under paragraph 15, and

b

as at the end of the day before the first day of the academic year in respect of which P is applying for a disabled postgraduate student’s grant, the period for which P is allowed to stay in the United Kingdom has expired and no further leave to remain has been granted and no appeal is pending.

2

Where this paragraph applies, P’s status as an eligible student terminates immediately before the first day of the academic year in respect of which P is applying for support.

b

after paragraph 14(3)(b)(ib) insert—

ic

the student becomes a person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen;

c

in paragraph 14(4), at the appropriate place insert “person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen” (person sydd â chaniatâd i ddod i mewn neu i aros fel dinesydd perthnasol o Affganistan);”.