Regulation 6 Amendment to the Further Education Loans Regulations 2012

The Further Education Loans Regulations 2012^f1 are amended in accordance with this regulation.

In Schedule 1, Part 2 (Eligible Students – Categories) after paragraph 12, insert—

“Long Residence

13.

(1)

A person who on the first day of a designated further education course—

(a)

has, preceding the first day of the further education course, lived in the United Kingdom throughout either—

(i)

half their life; or

(ii)

a period of twenty-years;

(b)

is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom;

(c)

has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the further education course; and

(d)

subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose residence in the United Kingdom and Islands has not during any part of the period referred to in paragraph (c) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.

(2)

Paragraph (d) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands in accordance with paragraph 1(5).”.