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.