# The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023, Regulation 24: Amendments relating to students becoming eligible for student support in the course of an academic year

Extent: E+W

(1) In regulation 85 (students becoming eligible in the course of an academic year: loans for living costs) is amended as follows.
(2) 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.”.
(3) Omit paragraph (2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/74/regulation/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-and-support-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-24
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