{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-support-and-loan-repayments-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-support-and-loan-repayments-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/130",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Fees, Awards, Support and Loan Repayments) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-support-and-loan-repayments-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendments to the payment of grants for living and other costs",
  "text": "In regulation 109 (payment of grants for living and other costs), after paragraph (20), insert—\n“(21) In the case of childcare grant—\n(a) the general rule is that an application from a person seeking payment of prescribed childcare charges must reach the Secretary of State during the period of 13 weeks beginning with the day immediately following the last day of the week in which the student incurred those prescribed childcare charges;\n(b) the general rule does not apply where—\n(i) the student incurred the prescribed childcare charges before 9th March 2026, in which case the application must reach the Secretary of State before the end of the period of 13 weeks beginning with that date;\n(ii) the Secretary of State, having regard to the circumstances of the particular case, considers that the time limit should be relaxed, in which case the application must reach the Secretary of State not later than such date as the Secretary of State specifies.\n(22) In paragraph (21), a week runs from Monday to Sunday.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/130/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:13.225881+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."
}