The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Students becoming eligible during the course of an academic year

8.  Where a qualifying student is allowed to study the content of one standard academic year of the qualifying course over two or more academic years, for the purpose of determining whether the student qualifies for a college fee loan for those years, the first of such years of study is to be treated as a standard academic year and the following years of that kind are to be treated as academic years that are not standard academic years.