# The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2008, Regulation 22: Fee loans: Students qualifying for new fee grant


(1) A student who qualifies for a new fee grant may apply under this regulation for a loan in respect of his or her attendance on the qualifying designated course.
(2) The maximum amount of loan available under this regulation is the lesser of —
(a) £1,285 or, where any of the circumstances in regulation 16(4) apply, £640; and
(b) the remainder of the fees payable by the student less an amount equal to the new fee grant in respect of or otherwise in connection with that year.
(3) Where the student has applied for a fee loan of less than the maximum amount available in relation to an academic year, he or she may apply to borrow an additional amount which, when added to the amount already applied for, does not exceed that maximum.
(4) If the student’s status as an eligible student is transferred from a qualifying designated course to another qualifying designated course under these Regulations and one of the circumstances in paragraph (5) applies, the student may borrow an additional amount by way of fee loan in respect of the academic year of the course to which he or she transfers.
(5) The circumstances are —
(a) the fees payable in respect of the academic year of the course to which the eligible student transfers exceed the fees payable in respect of the academic year of the course from which the student has transferred; and
(b) the academic year of the course to which the eligible student transfers does not begin on a later date than the academic year of the course from which he or she has transferred.
(6) Where paragraph (5)(a) applies, the additional amount that the eligible student may borrow in respect of the academic year to which he or she transfers must not exceed an amount equal to the fees payable by him or her in respect of that academic year less the amount of any fee loan he or she has taken out and/or any new fee grant that he or she has received in respect of the academic year from which he or she has transferred.
(7) Where paragraph (5)(b) applies, the additional amount that the eligible student may borrow in respect of the academic year to which he or she transfers must not exceed the lesser of—
(a) £3,225 or, where one of the circumstances in regulation 16(4) applies, £1,610; and
(b) the remainder of fees payable by the student less an amount equal to the new fee grant in respect of, or otherwise in connection with, that year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/3170/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/assembly-learning-grants-and-loans-higher-education-wales-no2-regulations-2008/regulation-22
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