The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2011
PART 1
GENERAL
1
Title, commencement and application
2
Interpretation
3
Revocation, savings and transitional provisions
PART 2
ELIGIBILITY
4
Eligible students
5
Designated courses
6
Period of eligibility
7
Previous study
8
Transfer of status
PART 3
APPLYING FOR SUPPORT AND PROVISION OF INFORMATION
9
Applications for support
10
Time limits
11
Information
12
Requirement to enter into a contract for a loan
PART 4
GRANTS AND LOANS FOR FEES
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL PROVISION
13
Fee Support Generally
14
Students becoming eligible during the course of an academic year
15
Events
CHAPTER 2
GRANTS FOR FEES
16
Grants for fees: qualifying conditions for old system eligible students
17
Amount of grants for fees at a publicly funded institution and at a private institution on behalf of a publicly funded institution: old system eligible students
18
Amount of the grant for fees at a private institution (not on behalf of a publicly funded institution): old system eligible students
19
New fee grant
CHAPTER 3
FEE CONTRIBUTION LOANS AND FEE LOANS
20
General qualifying conditions for fee contribution loans and fee loans
21
Fee contribution loans (for old system eligible students)
22
Fee loans: new system eligible students not qualifying for new fee grant
23
Fee loans: new system eligible students qualifying for new fee grant
PART 5
GRANTS FOR LIVING COSTS
24
General qualifying conditions for grants for living costs
25
Grants for disabled students' living costs
26
Grants for dependants — general
27
Grants for dependants — adult dependants' grant
28
Grants for dependants — childcare grant
29
Grants for dependants — parents' learning allowance
30
Grants for dependants — calculations
31
Grants for dependants — interpretation
32
Interpretation of regulations 33 to 35
33
Qualifying conditions for the grant for travel
34
Amount of the grant for travel
35
Deductions from the grant for travel
36
Higher education grants
37
Maintenance grant
38
Maintenance grant — new system eligible students who are not new cohort students
39
Maintenance grant — new system eligible students who are 2010 cohort students
40
Maintenance grant — new system eligible students who are 2011 cohort students
41
Special support grant
42
Special support grant — new system eligible students who are not new cohort students
43
Special support grant — new system eligible students who are 2010 cohort students
44
Special support grant — new system eligible students who are 2011 cohort students
PART 6
LOANS FOR LIVING COSTS
45
Qualifying conditions for loans for living costs
46
General
47
Maximum amount of loans for old system eligible students with full entitlement
48
Maximum amount of loans for new system eligible students with full entitlement who are not new cohort students
49
(1) This regulation applies to a type 1 or type...
50
Maximum amount of loans for new system eligible students with full entitlement who are 2010 cohort students
51
Maximum amount of loans for new system eligible students with full entitlement who are 2011 cohort students
52
Students with reduced entitlement
53
Students residing with parents
54
Loans for living costs payable in respect of three quarters of the academic year
55
Students falling into more than one category
56
Students becoming eligible during the course of an academic year
57
Increases in maximum amount
58
Deductions from loans for living costs
59
Interpretation of Part 6
PART 7
GENERAL LOAN PROVISIONS
60
Additional amount of loans
PART 8
COLLEGE FEE LOANS
61
College Fee Loans
PART 9
FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT
62
Calculation of contribution
63
Application of contribution
PART 10
PAYMENTS
64
Payment of grants or loans for fees
65
Payment of grants for living costs
66
Provision of United Kingdom national insurance number
67
Information requirements
68
Payment of loans for living costs
69
Overpayments
70
Payments — interpretation
PART 11
SUPPORT FOR FULL-TIME DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES
71
Eligible distance learning students
72
Students becoming eligible during the course of the academic year
73
Designated distance learning courses
74
Period of eligibility
75
Support for distance learning courses
76
Amount of support
77
Interpretation of regulation 76
78
Grant for disabled distance learning students' living costs
79
Applications for support
80
Declarations provided by academic authorities
81
Information
82
Transfer of status
83
Conversion of status — eligible students transferring to designated distance learning courses
84
Conversion of status — eligible distance learning students transferring to designated courses
85
Payment of grants for fees
86
Payment of grants for books, travel and other expenditure and grants for disabled distance learning students' living costs
87
Overpayments
PART 12
SUPPORT FOR PART-TIME COURSES
88
Eligible part-time students
89
Students becoming eligible during the course of the academic year
90
Designated part-time courses
91
Period of eligibility
92
Support for part-time courses (fee grant and grant for books, travel and other expenditure)
93
Grants for disabled part-time students' living costs
94
Part-time grants for dependants — general
95
(1) The part-time grants for dependants consist of the following...
96
Part-time adult dependants' grant
97
Part-time childcare grant
98
Part-time parents' learning allowance
99
Part-time grants for dependants — initial calculations
100
Part-time grants for dependants — interpretation
101
Part-time grants for dependants — calculation of contribution
102
Part-time grants for dependants — application of contribution
103
Part-time grants for dependants — final calculation
104
Applications for support
105
Assistance with fees in respect of attendance on a course in England, Northern Ireland or Scotland
106
Information and other matters
107
Transfer of status
108
Conversion of status
109
Payment of support to eligible part-time students
110
(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, the Welsh Ministers may...
111
Interpretation of regulation 110
112
Payment of grants for fees
113
Overpayments
PART 13
SUPPORT FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
114
Eligible postgraduate students
115
Students becoming eligible during the course of the academic year
116
Designated postgraduate courses
117
Period of eligibility
118
Transfer of status
119
Applications for support
120
Information
121
Amount of grant
122
Payment of grant
123
Overpayments
PART 14
AMENDMENT OF THE 2009 REGULATIONS
124
Amendment of the 2009 Regulations
125
In regulation 2(1)— (a) for the definition of “bursary year”...
126
In regulation 2(7)(a)(i), after “teachers” insert “or an academic year...
127
For regulation 5(1)(b)(iii), substitute— (iii) a course for the initial...
128
In regulation 7(5)(a), after “social worker” insert “, medical doctor,...
129
Omit regulation 7(6).
130
(1) For regulation 24(6)(e)(iv), substitute— (iv) a Regional Health and...
131
(1) In regulation 32(2), for “or the Institute” substitute “,...
132
(1) In regulation 43(8)(a), omit “and”. (2) At the end...
133
In regulation 56(1)(c), after “institution” insert “or attending an overseas...
134
Omit— (a) regulation 60(2); and (b) regulation 60(13).
135
In regulation 109(4)(a)(v), omit “by the General Social Care Council”....
136
In paragraph 1(1) in Schedule 1, in the definition of...
137
(1) In sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 5—...
SCHEDULE 1
Eligible Students
PART 1
1
Interpretation
PART 2
Categories
2
Persons who are settled in the United Kingdom
3
A person who— (a) is settled in the United Kingdom...
4
Refugees and their family members
5
Persons with leave to enter or remain and their family members
6
Workers, employed persons, self-employed persons and their family members
7
A person who— (a) is ordinarily resident in Wales on...
8
Persons who are settled in the United Kingdom and have exercised a right of residence elsewhere
9
EU nationals
10
(1) A person who— (a) is an EU national other...
11
Children of Swiss nationals
12
Children of Turkish workers
SCHEDULE 2
DESIGNATED COURSES
1
A first degree course.
2
A course for the Diploma of Higher Education.
3
A course for the Higher National Diploma or Higher National...
4
A course for the certificate of Higher Education.
5
A course for the initial training of teachers.
6
A course for the further training of youth and community...
7
A course in preparation for a professional examination of a...
8
A course— (a) providing education (whether or not in preparation...
SCHEDULE 3
INFORMATION
1
Every applicant, eligible student, eligible distance learning student, eligible part-time...
2
Every applicant, eligible student, eligible distance learning student, eligible part-time...
3
Information provided to the Welsh Ministers under these Regulations must...
SCHEDULE 4
COLLEGE FEE LOANS
1
Availability of college fee loans
2
A person qualifies for a college fee loan if the...
3
An eligible student who falls within paragraph 9 of Part...
4
Disabled students
5
Students becoming eligible during the course of an academic year
6
The events are— (a) the student, the student’s spouse, civil...
7
A college fee loan is available in respect of each...
8
Where a qualifying student is allowed to study the content...
9
In this Schedule “standard academic year” (“blwyddyn academaidd safonol”) means...
10
Amount of the college fee loan
11
Transfers
12
Payment
13
Conditions of entitlement to payment of college fee loan
14
Information requirements
15
Overpayment
SCHEDULE 5
FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT
1
Definitions
2
Independent eligible student
3
Household income
4
Calculation of eligible student’s residual income
5
Calculation of parent’s residual income
6
Calculation of eligible student’s partner’s residual income
7
Calculation of parent’s partner’s residual income
8
Calculation of contribution — old system eligible students
9
Calculation of contribution — new system eligible students
10
Split contributions
SCHEDULE 6
FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT — PART-TIME GRANTS FOR DEPENDANTS
1
Definitions
2
Household income
3
Calculation of eligible part-time student’s residual income
4
Calculation of eligible part-time student’s partner’s residual income
5
Calculation of contribution
6
Split contributions
2011 No. 148 (W.32)

EDUCATION, WALES

The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2011
Made
25 January 2011
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
27 January 2011
Coming into force
21 February 2011
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 22, 42(6) and 43(1) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 , and now exercisable by them make the following Regulations:
1998 c. 30; section 22 was amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21), section 146 and Schedule 11, the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), Schedule 6, the Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), section 147, the Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8), sections 42 and 43 and Schedule 7 and the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), section 257.
The functions of the Secretary of State under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (except so far as they relate to the making of any provision authorised by subsection (2)(a), (c), (j) or (k), (3)(e) or (f) or (5) of section 22) were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by section 44 of the Higher Education Act 2004 and the Higher Education Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) (Wales) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1833 (W.149) (C.79)) as amended by the Higher Education Act 2004 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1660 (W.159) (C.56)). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraphs 30(1) and 30(2)(c) of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).