The Student Fees (Qualifying Courses and Persons) (Wales) Regulations 2011

EU nationals

9.—(1) A person who—

(a)is either—

(i)an EU national on the first day of an academic year of the course; or

(ii)a family member of a such a person;

(b)is undertaking the course in the United Kingdom;

(c)has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and

(d)subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose ordinary residence in the relevant territory has not during any part of the period referred to in paragraph (c) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.

(2) Paragraph (d) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the relevant territory in accordance with paragraph 1(3).