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

Amendments to the Education (Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2017

93.  In regulation 3 (eligible students)—

(a) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person is an eligible student in connection with a designated course if, in assessing that person’s application for a postgraduate master’s degree loan under regulation 9, the Welsh Ministers determine that the person falls within one of the categories set out—

(a) in paragraph 2, 2A, 3, 4, 4ZA, 4ZB, 5, 6A, 7A, 8A, 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 10A, 11A or 12A of Part 2 of Schedule 1; or

(b) in paragraph 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 where paragraph (2A) applies.

(2A) This paragraph applies where—

(a) in connection with a designated course, the Welsh Ministers—

(i) in assessing an application for a postgraduate master’s degree loan by a person (“A”) determined that A fell within one of the categories set out in paragraph 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 in relation to an academic year of the course beginning before 1 August 2021; or

(ii) would have so determined had A made an application for a postgraduate master’s degree loan in accordance with these Regulations in relation to an academic year of the course beginning before that date; and

(b) A applies for a postgraduate master’s degree loan in connection with—

(i) that course; or

(ii) a designated course to which A’s status as an eligible student is transferred from that course in accordance with these Regulations.”;

(b) after paragraph (9) insert—

“(10) Where—

(a) the Welsh Ministers have determined that by virtue of—

(i) falling within paragraph (a)(iii) or (iv) of the definition of “person with protected rights”; or

(ii) meeting the conditions in paragraph 3(1)(a)(iii) or (iv) of Part 2 of Schedule 1,

a person (“A”) is an eligible student in connection with an application for a postgraduate master’s degree loan for a designated course; and

(b) as at the day before the first day of the first academic year of that designated course, A is not a person with protected rights,

A’s status as an eligible student terminates immediately before the first day of the first academic year of that designated course.”