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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-and-support-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/162",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-and-support-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Amendments relating to bereaved partners of Gurkha and Hong Kong military unit veterans and their children",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (bbza) (definition of “person granted indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner”)—\n(a) in the opening words, for “leave to remain” substitute “leave to enter or remain”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (i)—\n(i) in the opening words—\n(aa) for “leave to remain” substitute “leave to enter or remain”;\n(bb) omit “under any of the following provisions of the immigration rules”;\n(ii) in paragraph (aa), for “paragraph BP 11.1 of Appendix Bereaved Partner” substitute “under paragraph BP 11.1 of Appendix Bereaved Partner of the immigration rules”;\n(iii) in paragraph (bb), for “paragraph 288” substitute “under paragraph 288 of the immigration rules”;\n(iv) in paragraph (cc), for “paragraph 295N” substitute “under paragraph 295N of the immigration rules”;\n(v) in paragraph (dd), for “paragraph D-BPILR.1.1 of Appendix FM (bereaved partners)” substitute “under paragraph D-BPILR.1.1 of Appendix FM (bereaved partners) of the immigration rules”;\n(vi) omit the “or” after paragraph (dd);\n(vii) in paragraph (ee), for “paragraph 36 of Appendix Armed Forces (bereaved partners)” substitute “under paragraph 36 of Appendix Armed Forces (bereaved partner of a member of HM Forces) of the immigration rules”;\n(viii) after paragraph (ee), but before the “and”, insert—\n“(ff) under paragraph AF (GHK) 14.1 of Appendix GHK of the immigration rules, as a bereaved partner; or\n(gg) where such leave was granted prior to 5th October 2023, outside the immigration rules, on the basis that the person was a bereaved partner of a Gurkha discharged before 1st July 1997;”.\n(2) In regulation 6 (qualifying person: effect of event during academic year), in paragraph (2)(l), for “leave to remain” substitute “leave to enter or remain”.\n(3) In Part 2 of the Schedule (qualifying persons), in paragraph 5E (persons granted indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner and their children)—\n(a) in the heading, for “leave to remain” substitute “leave to enter or remain”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (1), for “leave to remain” substitute “leave to enter or remain”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (2) for “leave to remain”, each time it appears, substitute “leave to enter or remain”;\n(d) for sub-paragraph (3) substitute—\n“(3) In this paragraph, “leave application date” means the date on which a person granted indefinite leave to enter or remain as a bereaved partner made an application to enter or remain in the United Kingdom on those grounds—\n(a) under the immigration rules, or\n(b) in the case of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (i)(gg) of regulation 2(bbza) (interpretation: person granted indefinite leave to enter or remain as a bereaved partner), outside the immigration rules.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/162/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:28.212528+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}