The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021

Amendments to the Education (Fees and Awards) (Wales) Regulations 2007

20.  In the Schedule, after paragraph 7 insert—

“7A.— (1) A person with protected rights who—

(a) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the first day of the first academic year of the course;

(b) has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, 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

(c) is entitled to support by virtue of Article 10 of the Workers Regulation, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day, as extended by the EEA Agreement, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c), in Article 10 of the Workers Regulation—

(a) the reference to a “national of a Member State” is to be read as including a relevant person of Northern Ireland; and

(b) the reference to “another Member State” is to be read as including the United Kingdom, and the references to “that State” construed accordingly.”