Regulation 24 Amendments relating to students becoming eligible for student support in the course of an academic yearI1

In regulation 85 (students becoming eligible in the course of an academic year: loans for living costs)^f1 is amended as follows.

For paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1)

Where any of the following events occur in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of which such a loan is payable as begin after the event in question occurs—

(a)

a course designation event which results in the student’s course becoming a designated course; or

(b)

an in-year qualifying event (other than a settled status event) which results in the student becoming an eligible student.

(1A)

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 before the course start date,

the student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of all quarters of that academic year in respect of which a loan for living costs is payable.”.

Omit paragraph (2).