Qualifying conditions for loans for living costs
43.—(1) Subject to paragraph (7), an eligible student qualifies for a loan for living costs in connection with the student’s attendance on a designated course if the student satisfies the condition in paragraph (2) and is not excluded by paragraph (3) or regulation 7.
(2) The condition is that the eligible student is under the age of 60 on the relevant date.
(3) An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs if the only paragraph in Part 2 of Schedule 1 into which the student falls is paragraph 9.
(4) An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs in connection with his or her attendance on a designated course if that course is a flexible postgraduate ITT course which is of less than one academic year’s duration.
(5) An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs in connection with his or her attendance on a designated course if that course—
(a)begins on or after 1 September 2009; and
(b)leads to qualification as a landscape architect, landscape designer, landscape manager, town planner or town and country planner.
(6) An old system eligible student who falls within paragraph (a) or (d)(i) of the definition of “old system eligible student” in regulation 2 qualifies for a loan for living costs in connection with his or her attendance on a designated course if he or she satisfies the condition in paragraph (2) and is not excluded by paragraph (3).
(7) A student to whom this regulation applies is treated as if he or she were in attendance on the designated course for the purpose of qualifying for the loan for living costs.
(8) Paragraph (7) applies to—
(a)a compressed degree student; and
(b)a disabled student who—
(i)is not a compressed degree student; and
(ii)is undertaking a designated course in the United Kingdom but is not in attendance because he or she is unable to attend for a reason which relates to his or her disability.
(9) An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs under this Part if he or she is a prisoner.