The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Students becoming eligible during the course of an academic year

84.—(1) Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs in the course of an academic year—

(a) a student may qualify for a college fee loan in accordance with this Part in respect of that academic year provided that the relevant event occurred within the first three months of the academic year; and

(b) a college fee loan is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

(2) The relevant events are—

(a) the student, his spouse, his civil partner or his parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;

(b) a state accedes to the European Community and the student is a national of that state or is the family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2) of a national of that state or would have been a family member of a national of that state if the requirement to be working or self-employed in Northern Ireland had been a requirement to be working or self-employed in Scotland;

(c) the student becomes a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2) of an EC national or would have become a family member of an EC national if the requirement to be working or self-employed in Northern Ireland had been a requirement to be working or self-employed in Scotland;

(d) the student acquires the right of permanent residence;

(e) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 2 or would have become such a person if the requirement to be ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland and the requirement to be working or self-employed in Northern Ireland in paragraph 6 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 had been requirements to be ordinarily resident in Scotland or working or self-employed in Scotland;

(f) the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.