The Education (Fees, Awards and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2016

Amendment of the Education (Student Loans for Tuition Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

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5.—(1) The Education (Student Loans for Tuition Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In Schedule 1 (eligible students) after paragraph 6A insert—

6B.  A person who—

(a)(i)is a Syrian national who has been granted humanitarian protection to enter the United Kingdom under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme operated by the Home Department;

(ii)has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands at all times since that person was first granted such humanitarian protection to enter the United Kingdom; and

(iii)is ordinarily resident in Scotland on the first day of the first academic year of the course; or

(b)is the spouse, civil partner or child of a person of the kind described in subparagraph (a) and who is ordinarily resident in Scotland on the first day of the first academic year of the course..