The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018

Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017

35.  In regulation 110 (eligible postgraduate students)—

(a)after paragraph (11) insert—

(11A) Where—

(a)the Welsh Ministers determined that, by virtue of being a person granted stateless leave or the spouse, civil partner, child or step-child of such a person, a person (“A” in this paragraph) was an eligible postgraduate student in connection with an application for support for an earlier year of the present postgraduate course or an application in connection with another designated postgraduate course from which A’s status as an eligible postgraduate student has been transferred to the present postgraduate course; and

(b)as at the day before the academic year in respect of which A is applying for support starts, the period for which the person with leave to enter or remain is allowed to stay in the United Kingdom has expired and no further leave to remain has been granted and no application for administrative review in accordance with the immigration rules(1) is pending,

A’s status as an eligible postgraduate student terminates immediately before the first day of the academic year in respect of which A is applying for support.;

(b)in paragraph (12)(a), for “refugee” substitute “person with leave to enter or remain” in both places where it occurs.

(1)

See Appendix AR: administrative review.