{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fees-and-awards-wales-regulations-2007/schedule/paragraph-9BA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fees-and-awards-wales-regulations-2007/schedule/paragraph-9BA.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2007/2310",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Fees and Awards) (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fees-and-awards-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/9BA",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9BA",
  "heading": "Irish citizens in the EEA and Switzerland",
  "text": "(1) A person—\n(a) who is an Irish citizen on the first day of an academic year of the course;\n(b) who was ordinarily resident immediately before IP completion day—\n(i) in the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the EU overseas territories; or\n(ii) in the United Kingdom, where that ordinary residence began after 31 December 2017 immediately following a period of ordinary residence in the territory comprising the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the EU overseas territories,\nand has remained ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the EU overseas territories throughout the period beginning on IP completion day and ending immediately before the first day of the first academic year of the course;\n(c) who is undertaking the course in the United Kingdom;\n(d) who has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and\n(e) subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose ordinary residence in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories has not during any part of the period referred to in paragraph (d) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.\n(2) Paragraph (e) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories in accordance with regulation 2(4).\n(3) In this paragraph “EU overseas territories” means ... Faroe Islands; French Polynesia; French Southern and Antarctic Territories; Mayotte; Greenland; the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten); St Barthélemy; St Pierre et Miquelon; the Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies; and Wallis and Futuna.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 9BA inserted (31.12.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1365), regs. 1(2), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. para. 9BA(3) omitted (5.2.2026 with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/3), regs. 1(2), 2, 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 9BA(3) substituted (5.2.2026 with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/3), regs. 1(2), 2, 5(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/2310/schedule/paragraph/9BA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:00:39.281997+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."
}