# The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024, Regulation 16: Amendments relating to disabled students’ allowances


In regulation 139B of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011 (conversion of status from eligible student to eligible part-time student), for paragraph (3) substitute—
“(3) The following applies to a student (“A”) who transfers under paragraph (1)—
(a) where the Secretary of State has determined prior to the transfer that A is entitled to disabled students’ allowance, that entitlement terminates on the date of the transfer and no payments or further payments (including instalments) of that grant must be made after that date;
(b) the Secretary of State must determine whether A is entitled to disabled part-time students’ allowance for the remainder of the academic year in which A transfers;
(c) where in accordance with sub-paragraph (b) the Secretary of State determines that A is entitled to disabled part-time students’ allowance, the maximum amount of that grant as set out in regulation 147(6)(a) is reduced by any sums of disabled students’ allowance, other than sums in relation to travel costs, paid to A in respect of the academic year in which A transfers;
(d) where immediately before A became an eligible part-time student A was eligible to apply, but had not applied, for a loan for living costs under Part 6 in respect of that academic year, or had not applied for the maximum amount or increased maximum to which A was entitled under that Part, A may apply for such a loan, or such additional amount of loan, as if A had continued to be an eligible student.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/669/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-and-support-amendment-no-2-regulations-2024/regulation-16
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