The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

Eligible students continuing on a course

11.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies to a person (“P”) if—

(a) P’s circumstances fall within one of the cases in paragraph (3), and

(b) Exception 3 in Regulation 10 does not apply in respect of the year for which P is applying for support.

(2) Where this paragraph applies, P is an eligible student and accordingly—

(a) P need not fall within any of the categories of student set out in Schedule 2, and

(b) none of the exceptions set out in Regulation 10 (other than Exception 3) prevent P from being an eligible student.

(3) The cases are—

(a) Case 1

(a) P was an eligible student in connection with an earlier academic year of P’s present course, and

(b) P was ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of that course.

(a) Case 2

(a) P’s present course is an end-on course,

(b) P was an eligible student in connection with the course (the “earlier course”) in relation to which P’s present course is an end-on course,

(c) P’s period of eligibility for the earlier course ended only because P had completed that earlier course, and

(d) P was ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the earlier course.

(a) Case 3

(a) P was an eligible student in connection with a designated course (the “earlier course”) other than the present course,

(b) P’s status as an eligible student in connection with the earlier course has been transferred to the present course (see Section 5), and

(c) P was ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the earlier course.