PART 6LOANS FOR LIVING COSTS
Qualifying conditions for loans for living costs49
1
An eligible student qualifies for a loan for living costs in connection with the eligible student’s attendance on a designated course if the eligible student satisfies the condition in paragraph (2) and is not excluded by paragraph (3) or regulation 7.
2
The condition is that the eligible student is under the age of 60 on the relevant date.
3
An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs if the only paragraph in Part 2 of Schedule 1 into which the student falls is paragraph 9.
4
An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs in connection with the eligible student’s attendance on a designated course if that course is a flexible postgraduate ITT course which is of less than one academic year’s duration.
5
An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs in connection with the eligible student’s attendance on a designated course if that course—
a
begins on or after 1 September 2009; and
b
leads to qualification as a landscape architect, landscape designer, landscape manager, town planner or town and country planner.
6
An old system eligible student who falls within paragraph (a) or (d)(i) of the definition of “old system eligible student” in regulation 2 qualifies for a loan for living costs in connection with the old system eligible student’s attendance on a designated course if the old system eligible student satisfies the condition in paragraph (2) and is not excluded by paragraph (3).
7
An eligible student to whom this paragraph applies is treated as being in attendance on the designated course for the purpose of qualifying for a loan for living costs.
8
Paragraph (7) applies to—
a
a compressed degree student;
b
a disabled eligible student who—
i
is not a compressed degree student; and
ii
is undertaking a designated course in the United Kingdom but is not in attendance because the eligible student is unable to attend for a reason which relates to the eligible student’s disability; and
c
an eligible student on a period of study or a period of work placement in an Erasmus year.
9
An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs under this Part if the eligible student is a prisoner.
10
An eligible student does not qualify for a loan for living costs under this Part if the eligible student is undertaking a distance learning course.