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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-postgraduate-doctoral-degree-loans-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-postgraduate-doctoral-degree-loans-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/656",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-postgraduate-doctoral-degree-loans-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Amount of postgraduate doctoral degree loan",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), Table 2 sets out the amount of postgraduate doctoral degree loan that a person may apply for towards the costs of undertaking a designated course where—\n(a) Column 1 specifies the course in relation to which the amount of postgraduate doctoral degree loan specified in Column 2 applies, and\n(b) Column 2 specifies the amount of loan available in respect of the corresponding entry in Column 1.\nTable 2\nColumn 1\nCourse\nColumn 2\nAmount of postgraduate doctoral degree loan\nBeginning on or after 1 August 2024 but before 1 August 2025\n£28,655\nBeginning on or after 1 August 2025 but before 1 August 2026\n£29,130\nBeginning on or after 1 August 2026\n£29,705\n(2) Subject to regulation 17(5), where an eligible prisoner applies for a postgraduate doctoral degree loan the amount of the loan must not exceed the lesser of—\n(a) the fees payable in respect of the course, and\n(b) the amount of postgraduate doctoral degree loan available to a person under paragraph (1) in respect of the course.\n(3) Except where regulation 17(5) and (6) applies an eligible student may apply to the Welsh Ministers to amend the amount of postgraduate doctoral degree loan for which the student has applied, provided that—\n(a) in aggregate, the amounts of postgraduate doctoral degree loan applied for do not exceed the applicable amounts set out in paragraphs (1) and (2);\n(b) such application is made in accordance with regulation 11(2).\n(4) If the Welsh Ministers have determined under regulation 10 that the applicant is an eligible student, the Welsh Ministers must pay the amount for which the eligible student qualifies in accordance with regulation 14.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words and table in reg. 13(1) substituted (17.3.2025) by The Education (Student Finance) (Amounts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/193), regs. 1(2), 36(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(1) Table 2 inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(2)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Amounts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/11), regs. 1(2), 48(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(1) Table 2 inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(2)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Amounts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/11), regs. 1(2), 48(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(2)(b) substituted (17.3.2025) by The Education (Student Finance) (Amounts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/193), regs. 1(2), 36(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/656/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:02.573876+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."
}