9.—(1) The Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(3) and (4) after “6A(a)(iii) and (b)” insert “, 6B(a)(iii) and (b)”.
(3) In Schedule 1 (persons eligible for allowances) 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 relevant date; 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 relevant date.”.
S.S.I. 2007/153, amended by S.S.I. 2007/503, 2008/206, 2009/188 and 309, 2012/72 and 2013/80.