The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Qualifying conditions for the grant for travel

32.—(1) A grant is available to an eligible student attending a course in medicine or dentistry (a necessary part of which is a period of study by way of clinical training) in respect of the reasonable expenditure which the eligible student is obliged to incur in an academic year for the purpose of attending in connection with the eligible student’s course any hospital or other premises in the United Kingdom (not comprised in the institution) at which facilities for clinical training are provided other than expenditure incurred for the purpose of residential study away from the institution.

(2) A grant is available to an eligible student in respect of the reasonable expenditure which the eligible student is obliged to incur in each qualifying quarter within or outside the United Kingdom for the purpose of attending as part of the eligible student’s course an overseas institution, the Institute or overseas work placement in an Erasmus year.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a grant under this regulation is payable to an eligible student in respect of the four quarters of the academic year.

(4) Where one of the events listed in regulation 23(12) occurs in the course of an academic year, an eligible student may only qualify for a grant under this regulation in respect of such quarters as begin after the relevant event occurs.