PART 12SUPPORT FOR PART-TIME COURSES

Students becoming eligible during the course of the academic year94

1

Where one of the events listed in paragraph (4) occurs in the course of an academic year—

a

a student may qualify for a grant in respect of fees or a new part-time fee loan in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part provided that the relevant event occurred within the first three months of the academic year; and

b

a grant in respect of fees or a new part-time fee loan are not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

2

Where one of the events listed in sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) of paragraph (4) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for part-time grants for dependants in accordance with this Part in respect of all or part of that academic year but the student does not qualify for a grant in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

3

Where one of the events listed in sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (e), (f), (g) (h) or (i) of paragraph (4) occurs in the course of an academic year—

a

a student may qualify for a grant for books, travel and other expenditure, a new part-time course grant or a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part; and

b

neither a grant for books, travel and other expenditure, a new part-time course grant or a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs is available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.

4

The events are—

a

the student’s course becomes a designated part-time 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

a state accedes to the European Union where the student is a national of that state or a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1) of a national of that state;

d

the student becomes a family member (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1) of an EU national;

e

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;

f

the student acquires the right of permanent residence;

g

the student becomes the child of a Turkish worker;

h

the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1; or

i

the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.