{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/814",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—\n(a) in the appropriate places insert—\n““close relative” (“perthynas agos”) (in relation to a person (“P”)) means—\n(a)P’s spouse or civil partner;\n(b)a person ordinarily living with P as if the person were P’s spouse or civil partner;\n(c)P’s parent, where P is under the age of 25;\n(d)P’s child, where P is dependent on that child;”;\n““immigration rules” (“rheolau mewnfudo”) means the rules laid before Parliament by the Secretary of State under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;”;\n““member of the armed forces” (“aelod o’r lluoedd arfog”) means a member of the regular naval, military or air forces of the Crown;”; and\n““person granted stateless leave” (“person y rhoddwyd caniatâd iddo aros fel person diwladwriaeth”) means a person who—\n(a)has extant leave to remain as a stateless person under the immigration rules; and\n(b)has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the period since the person was granted such leave;”; and\n(b) for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of “person with leave to enter or remain”, substitute—\n“(a) who has—\n(i) applied for refugee status but has, as a result of that application, been informed in writing by a person acting under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department that, although A is considered not to qualify for recognition as a refugee, it is thought right to allow A to enter or remain in the United Kingdom on the grounds of humanitarian protection or discretionary leave, and who has been granted leave to enter or remain accordingly;\n(ii) not applied for refugee status but has been informed in writing by a person acting under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department that it is thought right to allow A to enter or remain in the United Kingdom on the grounds of discretionary leave, and who has been granted leave to enter or remain accordingly;\n(iii) been granted leave to remain on the grounds of private life under the immigration rules; or\n(iv) been informed in writing by a person acting under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department that, although A is not considered to qualify for leave to remain on the grounds of private life under the immigration rules, A has been granted leave to remain outside the rules on the grounds of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights;”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in force at 30.7.2018, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 276BE(2) of the immigration rules refers."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/814/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:31.595231+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."
}