Regulation 17 Amendments relating to students becoming eligible for student support in the course of an academic yearI1

In regulation 38 (general qualifying conditions for grants for living and other costs)^f1, for paragraph (8) substitute—

“(8)

Where a protected category event which results in a student becoming an eligible student occurs—

(a)

in the course of the first academic year of a course; and

(b)

on or before the course start date,

the student may qualify for a particular grant in accordance with this Part in respect of that academic year.

(8A)

Subject to paragraph (8B), where—

(a)

a course designation event which results in a student’s course becoming a designated course occurs in the course of an academic year; or

(b)

an in-year qualifying event (other than a settled status event) which results in a student becoming an eligible student occurs in the course of an academic year,

the student may qualify for a particular grant in accordance with this Part in respect of part of that academic year.

(8B)

A student does not qualify for such a grant in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the event in question occurs.”.