The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Savings: the Education (European University Institute) (Wales) Regulations 2014

79.—(1) This regulation applies where a current Afghan scheme student (“ S”) applies for support under the 2014 Regulations in respect of an academic year of a designated course which begins on or after 1 August 2024 (“the current course”).

(2) For the purposes of determining whether S’s status as an eligible student terminates before the first day of the academic year of the designated course in respect of which S is applying for support (see regulation 6(10F) of the 2014 Regulations), the 2014 Regulations apply as if the amendments made by regulations 10 and 11 of these Regulations had not been made.

(3) In this regulation—

“the 2014 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2014”) means the Education (European University Institute) (Wales) Regulations 2014;

“current Afghan scheme student” (“myfyriwr cyfredol sydd ar y cynllun Affganistan”) means a student who the Welsh Ministers determined by virtue of falling within paragraph (aa) (as inserted by regulation 9(b) of these Regulations) or (d) of the definition of “person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen” in regulation 3(1) of the 2014 Regulations to be an eligible student in connection with—

(a)

an application for support for an earlier academic year of the current course, or

(b)

an application for support for a designated course of the Institute from which S’s status has been transferred to the current course;

“designated course” (“cwrs dynodedig”) has the meaning given in regulation 7 of the 2014 Regulations;

“eligible student” (“myfyriwr cymwys”) and “the Institute” (“yr Athrofa”) have the meanings given in regulation 3(1) of the 2014 Regulations.