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PART 6LOANS FOR LIVING COSTS

Interpretation of Part 6

52.  In this Part—

(a)a student is in category 1 if subject to regulation 46 the student resides at the student’s parents’ home while attending the course; or

(b)a student is in category 2 if the student is not in category 1 and the student attends one or more of the following—

(i)a course at the University of London;

(ii)a course at an institution which requires attendance for at least half the time in aggregate of any quarter of the course in the academic year at a site wholly or partly within the area comprising the City of London and the former Metropolitan Police District; or

(iii)a sandwich course at an institution which requires the student to undertake work experience or a combination of work experience and study provided that the student undertakes such work experience or combination of work experience and study for at least half the time in aggregate of any quarter of the course in the academic year at a site or sites wholly or partly within the area comprising the City of London and the former Metropolitan Police District;

(c)a student is in category 3 if the student is not in category 1 and the student attends an overseas institution as part of the student’s course or attends an overseas work placement in an Erasmus year;

(d)a student is in category 4 if the student is not in category 1 and attends the Institute;

(e)a student is in category 5 if the student is not in categories 1 to 4;

(f)an “an eligible student with full entitlement” (“myfyriwr cymwys sydd â hawlogaeth lawn”) is an eligible student other than a student with reduced entitlement;

(g)“parent” (“rhiant”), except where otherwise indicated, is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 1(1)(f) of Schedule 5;

(h)the “relevant date” (“dyddiad perthnasol”) means the first day of the first academic year of the specified designated course;

(i)a “student with reduced entitlement” (“myfyriwr sydd â hawlogaeth ostyngol”) is an eligible student who—

(i)is not eligible for a grant for living costs in respect of the academic year by virtue of regulation 23(3) or regulation 23(6); or

(ii)opts when applying for a loan for living costs not to provide the information needed to calculate the household income;

(j)where the duration of a graduate-entry or postgraduate-level course for the initial training of teachers is only one academic year, that year is not to be treated as the final year.