{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-postgraduate-doctoral-degree-loans-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-1/paragraph-7A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-postgraduate-doctoral-degree-loans-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-1/paragraph-7A.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/7A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person with protected rights or a frontier worker within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, who—\n(a) is—\n(i) an EEA migrant worker or an EEA self-employed person;\n(ii) a Swiss employed person or a Swiss self-employed person;\n(iii) a family member of a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii);\n(iv) an EEA frontier worker or an EEA frontier self-employed person;\n(v) a Swiss frontier employed person or a Swiss frontier self-employed person; or\n(vi) a family member of a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (iv) or (v);\n(b) subject to sub-paragraph (2), is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course; and\n(c) 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.\n(2) Paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where the person applying for support falls within paragraph (a)(iv), (v) or (vi) of sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) In this paragraph, a description of a person in sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) is to be read as if it includes a relevant person of Northern Ireland who would, if that person were an EEA national or solely an EEA national, be an EEA migrant worker or an EEA self-employed person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7A inserted (25.4.2021) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/481), regs. 1(2), 164 (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7A(1)(c) omitted (22.2.2023) by virtue of The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/87), regs. 1(2), 63(e)(i) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7A(1)(c) substituted (22.2.2023) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/87), regs. 1(2), 63(e)(ii) (with reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/656/schedule/1/paragraph/7A",
    "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."
}