The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Ordinary Residence) (Wales) Regulations 2021

Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017

31.  In Schedule 1, after paragraph 4 (refugees and their family members) insert—

“Protected persons and their family members

4ZA.— (1) A person—

(a) granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person;

(b) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since the person was granted such leave; and

(c) who is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.

(2) A person who—

(a) is the spouse or civil partner of a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person;

(b) on the leave application date, was the spouse or civil partner of a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person; and

(c) is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.

(3) A person—

(a) who—

(i) is the child of a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person, or the child of the spouse or civil partner of a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person; and

(ii) on the leave application date, was the child of a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person or the child of a person who, on the leave application date, was the spouse or civil partner of a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person;

(b) who was under 18 on the leave application date; and

(c) who is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.

(4) In this paragraph—

(a) “leave application date” means the date on which a person made an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom that results in a person becoming a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person;

(b) “person being granted leave to enter or remain as a protected person” means a person who has extant leave to enter or remain on the grounds of humanitarian protection under paragraph 339C of the immigration rules.”