{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fees-and-awards-scotland-regulations-2007/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/152",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fees-and-awards-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Relevant connection with the United Kingdom and Islands",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 6, for the purposes of this Part a student has a relevant connection with the United Kingdom and Islands if–\n(a) that student has been ordinarily resident there throughout the 3 year period immediately preceding 1st August, 1st January, 1st April or 1st July closest to the beginning of the first term of the student’s course;\n(b) that student’s residence there during any part of that 3 year period has not been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education unless the person is settled as referred to in paragraph (c) as a result of residence for full-time education which has led to a right of permanent residence arising under Directive 2004/38 and that person was ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the European Economic Area and Switzerland immediately prior to the start of that period of residence; and\n(c) at the date referred to in paragraph (a) that student is settled in the United Kingdom within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 (c. 77); section 33(2A) was inserted by paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Fees, Awards and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Fees, Awards and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/152/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:14:47.117943+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}