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

Amendments to the Education (Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2017

53.  In Schedule 1—

(a) after paragraph 4 (refugees and their family members) insert—

“Persons granted stateless leave and their family members

4A.— (1) A person granted stateless leave who—

(a) is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course; and

(b) has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.

(2) A person—

(a) who—

(i) is the spouse or civil partner of a person granted stateless leave; and

(ii) on the leave application date, was the spouse or civil partner of a person granted stateless leave;

(b) who is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course; and

(c) who has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period preceding the first year of the first academic year of the course.

(3) A person—

(a) who—

(i) is the child of a person granted stateless leave or the child of the spouse or civil partner of a person granted stateless leave; and

(ii) on the leave application date, was the child of a person granted stateless leave or the child of a person who, on the leave application date, was the spouse or civil partner of a person granted stateless leave;

(b) who was under 18 on the leave application date;

(c) who is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course; and

(d) who has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.

(4) In this paragraph, “leave application date” means the date on which a person granted stateless leave made an application to remain in the United Kingdom as a stateless person under the immigration rules.”;

(b) in paragraph 5 (persons with leave to enter or remain and their family members)—

(i) for sub-paragraph (2)(b) substitute—

“(b) who was the spouse or civil partner of the person with leave to enter or remain on the leave application date;”;

(ii) for sub-paragraph (3)(b) substitute—

“(b) who, on the leave application date, was the child of the person with leave to enter or remain or the child of a person who was the spouse or civil partner of the person with leave to enter or remain on that date;”;

(iii) for sub-paragraph (3)(c) substitute—

“(c) who was under 18 on the leave application date;”; and

(iv) after sub-paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) In this paragraph, “leave application date” means the date on which the person with leave to enter or remain made the application that led to that person being granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom.”