{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-and-support-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments relating to bereaved partners of Gurkha and Hong Kong military unit veterans and their children",
  "text": "(1) In Part 1 (general), in regulation 2 (interpretation: general), in paragraph (1), in the 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 paragraph (a)—\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 sub-paragraph (i), 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) omit the “or” after sub-paragraph (i);\n(iv) in the opening words of sub-paragraph (ii), after “Appendix Bereaved Partner” insert “, under any of the following provisions of the immigration rules”;\n(v) after sub-paragraph (ii), but before the “and”, insert—\n“(iii) under paragraph AF (GHK) 14.1 of Appendix GHK of the immigration rules, as a bereaved partner; or\n(iv) 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 Part 1 (general), in regulation 2A(3) (meaning of “protected category event”), in sub-paragraph (g), for “leave to remain” substitute “leave to enter or remain”.\n(3) In Part 2 of Schedule 1 (eligible students: categories), in paragraph 4E (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 paragraph (a)(iv) of the definition of “person granted indefinite leave to enter or remain as a bereaved partner” in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), 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/5",
    "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."
}