The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

Effect of transfer

16.—(1) Where the Welsh Ministers transfer an eligible postgraduate student’s (“P’s”) status under paragraph 15—

(a) they may re-assess the amount of disabled postgraduate student’s grant payable to P after the transfer;

(b) but if no re-assessment is made, P is entitled, in respect of the academic year of the course to which P transfers, to receive the remainder of the disabled postgraduate student’s grant which the Welsh Ministers assessed P was entitled to receive in respect of the academic year of the course from which P transferred.

(2) Where an eligible postgraduate student (“P”) transfers—

(a) after the Welsh Ministers have assessed P’s entitlement to disabled postgraduate student’s grant in respect of the academic year of the course from which P transferred, but

(b) before P completes that year,

P may not apply for a disabled postgraduate student’s grant in respect of that academic year in connection with the course to which P has transferred.