The Education (Postgraduate Master's Degree Loans) Regulations 2016

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Sch. 1 para. 1(5) words inserted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(2)(b) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 1(6) words inserted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(2)(b) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 1(7) words inserted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(2)(c) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 1(1) words omitted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(2)(a)(i) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 1(1) words omitted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(2)(a)(ii) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)

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Sch. 1 para. 11(1)(a)-(d) Sch. 1 para. 11(a)-(d) renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 11(1)(a)-(d) by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(3)(d)(i) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 4C(1) Sch. 1 para. 4C renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 4C(1) by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 34(2)(b)
Sch. 1 para. 4E(1) Sch. 1 para. 4E renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 4E(1) by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 34(2)(e)
Sch. 1 para. 9(4) inserted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(3)(b)(ii) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 11(2) inserted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(3)(d)(iii) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 4C(2)(3) inserted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 34(2)(c)
Sch. 1 para. 4E(2)(3) inserted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 34(2)(f)
Sch. 1 para. 9BB(1)(a)(ii) and word inserted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 37(a)(iii)
Sch. 1 para. 9BB(3)(4) inserted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 37(b)
Sch. 1 para. 9BB(1)(a)(i) words in Sch. 1 para. 9BB(1)(a) renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 9BB(1)(a)(i) by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 37(a)(ii)
Sch. 1 para. 11(1)(c) words inserted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(3)(d)(ii) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 11(1)(d) words inserted by S.I. 2019/139 reg. 22(3)(d)(ii) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Amending Regulations revoked immediately before IP completion day by S.I. 2020/1181, regs. 1(2). 2)
Sch. 1 para. 9BB(1)(a)(i) words omitted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 35(2)(a)
reg. 3(8A)(b)(i)-(iii) and words substituted for words in reg. 3(8A)(b) by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 33(a)
reg. 3(8E)(b)(i)-(iii) and words substituted for words in reg. 3(8E)(b) by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 33(d)
reg. 3(8I) inserted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 33(h)
reg. 7(2)(ba)(bb) inserted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 35(1)(a)
reg. 7(2)(da) inserted by S.I. 2024/85 reg. 35(1)(b)

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

1.—(1) For the purposes of this Schedule—U.K.

F1...

“EEA frontier self-employed person” means an EEA national who—

(a)

is a self-employed person in England; and

(b)

resides in Switzerland or the territory of an EEA State F2... and returns to the national's residence in Switzerland or that EEA State, as the case may be, daily or at least once a week;

“EEA frontier worker” means an EEA national who—

(a)

is a worker in England; and

(b)

resides in Switzerland or the territory of an EEA State F2... and returns to the national's residence in Switzerland or that EEA State, as the case may be, daily or at least once a week;

“EEA migrant worker” means an EEA national who is a worker, other than an EEA frontier worker, in the United Kingdom;

“EEA national” means a national of an EEA State F2...;

“EEA self-employed person” means an EEA national who is a self-employed person, other than an EEA frontier self-employed person, in the United Kingdom;

“employed person” means an employed person within the meaning of Annex 1 to the Swiss Agreement;

“European Economic Area” means the area comprised by the EEA States;

[F3“evacuated or assisted British national from Afghanistan” means a person—

(a)

who is a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas), a British Overseas citizen, a British subject under the British Nationality Act 1981 or a British protected person within the meaning of that Act;

(b)

who was either—

(i)

evacuated from Afghanistan by or on behalf of the United Kingdom, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member state, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran or Qatar during the period of the operation known as Operation Pitting, which began on 14th August 2021 and ended on 28th August 2021; or

(ii)

assisted by or on behalf of the United Kingdom, after 28th August 2021 and before 6th January 2022, to leave Afghanistan; and

(c)

who has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands since they were evacuated from or otherwise left Afghanistan;]

unless otherwise indicated, “family member” means—

(a)

in relation to an EEA frontier worker, an EEA migrant worker, an EEA frontier self-employed person [F4, an EEA self-employed person, or a relevant person of Northern Ireland who is treated as an EEA migrant worker or an EEA self-employed person by virtue of paragraph 6A(3)]—

(i)

that person's spouse or civil partner;

(ii)

direct descendants of the person or of the person's spouse or civil partner who are—

(aa)

under the age of 21, or

(bb)

dependents of the person or the person's spouse or civil partner; or

(iii)

dependent direct relatives in the ascending line of that person or that of the person's spouse or civil partner;

(b)

in relation to a Swiss employed person, a Swiss frontier employed person, a Swiss frontier self-employed person or a Swiss self-employed person—

(i)

that person's spouse or civil partner; or

(ii)

that person's child or the child of that person's spouse or civil partner;

(c)

in relation to an EU national who falls within article 7(1)(c) of Directive 2004/38 [F5or, for the purposes of paragraph 9A, in relation to a relevant person of Northern Ireland who would fall within article 7(1)(c) of Directive 2004/38 if that person were an EU national or solely an EU national]—

(i)

that person's spouse or civil partner; or

(ii)

direct descendants of the person or of the person's spouse or civil partner who are—

(aa)

under the age of 21; or

(bb)

dependants of the person or the person's spouse or civil partner;

(d)

in relation to an EU national who falls within article 7(1)(b) of Directive 2004/38 [F6or, for the purposes of paragraph 9A, in relation to a relevant person of Northern Ireland who would fall within article 7(1)(b) of Directive 2004/38 if that person were an EU national or solely an EU national]—

(i)

that person's spouse or civil partner;

(ii)

direct descendants of the person or of the person's spouse or civil partner who are—

(aa)

under the age of 21; or

(bb)

dependants of the person or the person's spouse or civil partner; or

(iii)

dependent direct relatives in the person's ascending line or that of the person's spouse or civil partner;

(e)

in relation to a United Kingdom national, for the purposes of [F7paragraphs 9, 9B and 9D and for the purposes of paragraph 9C in relation to a person settled in the United Kingdom]—

(i)

the person's spouse or civil partner; or

(ii)

direct descendants of the person or the person's spouse or civil partner who are—

(aa)

under the age of 21; or

(bb)

dependants of the person or the person's spouse or civil partner;

[F8“overseas territories” means Anguilla; Aruba; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Faroe Islands; French Polynesia; French Southern and Antarctic Territories; Gibraltar; Mayotte; Greenland; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten); Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; St Barthélemy; [F9St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]; St Pierre et Miquelon; the Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies; Turks and Caicos Islands; and Wallis and Futuna;]

F1...

“self-employed person” means—

(a)

in relation to an EEA national, a person who is self-employed within the meaning of article 7 of Directive 2004/38 or the EEA Agreement, as the case may be; or

(b)

in relation to a Swiss national, a person who is a self-employed person within the meaning of Annex 1 to the Swiss Agreement;

“settled ”has the meaning given by section 33(2A) of the Immigration Act 1971 M1;

[F10“specified British overseas territories” means Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; [F11St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]; and Turks and Caicos Islands;]

“Swiss Agreement” means the Agreement between the EU and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the Free Movement of Persons signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1999 M2 and which came into force on 1st June 2002;

F1...

“Swiss employed person” means a Swiss national who is an employed person, other than a Swiss frontier employed person, in the United Kingdom;

“Swiss frontier employed person” means a Swiss national who—

(a)

is an employed person in England; and

(b)

resides in Switzerland or in the territory of an EEA State F2... and returns to the national's residence in Switzerland or that EEA State, as the case may be, daily or at least once a week;

“Swiss frontier self-employed person” means a Swiss national who—

(a)

is a self-employed person in England; and

(b)

resides in Switzerland or in the territory of an EEA StateF12... and returns to the national's residence in Switzerland or that EEA State, as the case may be, daily or at least once a week;

“Swiss self-employed person” means a Swiss national who is a self-employed person, other than a Swiss frontier self-employed person, in the United Kingdom;

[F13“United Kingdom national” has the meaning given by Article 2(d) of the EU withdrawal agreement;]

“worker” means a worker within the meaning of article 7 of Directive 2004/38 or the EEA Agreement as the case may be.

[F14(1A) For the purposes of this Schedule, a reference to a “Member State” or “State” in Article 7 of Directive 2004/38 is to be read as including the United Kingdom.]

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, “parent” means a parent, guardian or any other person having parental responsibility and “child” is to be construed accordingly.

(3) For the purposes of this Schedule, a person is not to be treated as ordinarily resident in a place unless that person lawfully resides in that place.

(4) For the purposes of this Schedule, a person who is ordinarily resident in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Islands, as a result of having moved from another of those areas for the purpose of undertaking—

(a)the designated course; or

(b)a course which, disregarding any intervening vacation, the person undertook immediately before undertaking the designated course,

is to be considered to be ordinarily resident in the place from which the person moved.

[F15(5) For the purposes of this Schedule, a person (“A”) is to be treated as ordinarily resident in an area if A would have been so resident but for the fact that—

(a)A;

(b)A’s spouse or civil partner; or

(c)in the case of a dependent direct relative in the ascending line, A’s child or child’s spouse or civil partner,

is or was temporarily employed outside the area in question.]

[F16(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5), temporary employment outside the area in question includes—

(a)in the case of members of the regular naval, military or air forces of the Crown, any period which they serve outside the United Kingdom as members of such forces;

(b)in the case of members of the regular armed forces of a specified British overseas territory, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the United Kingdom and the specified British overseas territories as members of such forces;

(c)in the case of members of the regular armed forces of the Republic of Ireland, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the Islands and the Republic of Ireland as members of such forces;

(d)in the case of members of the regular armed forces of an EEA State or Switzerland, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, the European Economic Area and Switzerland as members of such forces;

(e)in the case of members of the regular armed forces of Turkey, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Turkey as members of such forces; and

(f)in the case of members of the regular armed forces of an EU overseas territory, any period which they serve outside the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories.]

(7) For the purposes of this Schedule an area [F17other than the United Kingdom or Gibraltar] which —

(a)was previously not part of the EU or the European Economic Area; but

(b)at any time before or after these Regulations come into force has become part of one or other or both of these areas,

is to be considered to have always been a part of the European Economic Area.

(8) For the purposes of this Schedule, an eligible prisoner is to be considered ordinarily resident in the part of the United Kingdom where the prisoner resided prior to sentencing.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/127), regs. 1(1), 57(2)(a)(i)

F2Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1181), regs. 1(3), 27(2)(a)(ii)

F3Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(e) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/534), regs. 1(1), 15(2)(a)

F4Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) substituted (1.3.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/127), regs. 1(1), 57(2)(a)(ii)(aa)

F5Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) inserted (1.3.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/127), regs. 1(1), 57(2)(a)(ii)(bb)

F6Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) inserted (1.3.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/127), regs. 1(1), 57(2)(a)(ii)(cc)

F7Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348), regs. 1(1), 45(3)(a)(i)

F8Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348), regs. 1(1), 45(3)(a)(ii)

F9Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) substituted (16.2.2023) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/74), regs. 1, 88(a)

F10Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348), regs. 1(1), 45(3)(a)(iii)

F11Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) substituted (16.2.2023) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/74), regs. 1, 88(b)