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The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

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PART 12QUALIFYING FOR SUPPORT DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR

Qualifying for a tuition fee loan during the academic year

80.—(1) Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs within 3 months of the first day of the academic year, the student may qualify for a tuition fee loan in respect of that academic year.

(2) The events are—

(a)the present course becomes a designated course;

(b)the student becomes an eligible student on the grounds that—

(i)the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;

(ii)a state accedes to the European Union where the student is a national of that state or a family member of a national of that state;

(iii)the student becomes a family member of an EU national;

(iv)the student acquires the right of permanent residence;

(v)the student becomes a child of a Turkish worker;

(vi)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 2;

(vii)the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.

(3) In this regulation and regulation 81, the following terms have the same meaning as in Schedule 2—

“child” (“plentyn”);

“family member” (“aelod o deulu”) (within the meaning given by paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 2);

“parent” (“rhiant”);

“person with leave to enter or remain” (“person sydd â chaniatâd i ddod i mewn neu i aros”);

“refugee” (“ffoadur”);

“right of permanent residence” (“hawl i breswylio’n barhaol”);

“Turkish worker” (“gweithiwr Twrcaidd”).

Qualifying for grants or maintenance loan during the academic year

81.—(1) Where one of the events in paragraph (3) occurs, the eligible student may qualify for a grant or maintenance loan.

(2) But the amount of grant or loan payable to the eligible student—

(a)will only be in respect of the quarter or quarters of the academic year beginning after the relevant event occurs, and

(b)in relation to a maintenance loan, will only be payable if it is a quarter in respect of which the loan would otherwise be payable under regulation 85(6) and (7).

(3) The events are—

(a)the student’s course becomes a designated course;

(b)the student becomes an eligible student on the grounds that–

(i)the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;

(ii)a state of which the student is a national accedes to the European Union where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;

(iii)the student acquires the right of permanent residence;

(iv)the student becomes a child of a Turkish worker;

(v)the student becomes a person described in paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 2;

(vi)the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.

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