The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2022

Amendments to Schedule 4 (disabled postgraduate student’s grant)

39.  In Schedule 4—

(a) after paragraph 13E insert—

“13F.— (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) a person (“P”) was an eligible postgraduate student by reason of them being a person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen (see Schedule 2, paragraph 2ZA) in connection with an application for disabled postgraduate student’s grant—

(i) for an earlier year of the present postgraduate course, or

(ii) in connection with a course from which P’s status as an eligible postgraduate student has been transferred to the present postgraduate course under paragraph 15, and

(b) as at the end of the day before the first day of the academic year in respect of which P is applying for a disabled postgraduate student’s grant, the period for which P is allowed to stay in the United Kingdom has expired and no further leave to remain has been granted and no appeal is pending.

(2) Where this paragraph applies, P’s status as an eligible student terminates immediately before the first day of the academic year in respect of which P is applying for support.”;

(b) after paragraph 14(3)(b)(ib) insert—

“(ic) the student becomes a person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen;”;

(c) in paragraph 14(4), at the appropriate place insert “person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen” (“person sydd â chaniatâd i ddod i mewn neu i aros fel dinesydd perthnasol o Affganistan”);”.