PART 13SUPPORT FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Students becoming eligible during the course of the academic year123
1
Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs in the course of an academic year—
a
a student may qualify for a grant under this Part in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part; and
b
a grant of the kind available under this Part is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.
2
The events are—
a
the student’s course becomes a designated postgraduate course;
b
the student, or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1) is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;
c
the state of which the student is a national accedes to the European Union where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;
d
the student acquires the right of permanent residence;
e
the student becomes a child of a Turkish worker;
f
the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 1; or
g
the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.