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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/16",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which are in eight Parts, amend various Regulations which make provision about, and in connection with, student finance.\nPart 1 makes provision about the coming into force and application of these Regulations.\nParts 2 to 8 make amendments to the following Regulations—\n(a) Part 2 amends the Education (Fees and Awards) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”),\n(b) Part 3 amends the Education (European University Institute) (Wales) Regulations 2014 (“the 2014 Regulations”),\n(c) Part 4 amends the Higher Education (Qualifying Courses, Qualifying Persons and Supplementary Provision) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (“the 2015 Regulations”),\n(d) Part 5 amends the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (“the 2017 Regulations”),\n(e) Part 6 amends the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (“the 2018 Regulations”),\n(f) Part 7 amends the Education (Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (“the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations”), and\n(g) Part 8 amends the Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master’s Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (“the 2019 Regulations”).\nAmendments made by these Regulations—\n(a) update the definition of a “protected Ukrainian national” in the 2007 Regulations, the 2014 Regulations, the 2015 Regulations, the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations to include persons who are granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom under the new Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme, so that such persons are eligible for home fee status, the fee limits and student support,\n(b) provide for certain categories of students in the 2007 Regulations, the 2015 Regulations, the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, which require a student to be settled in the United Kingdom, to become eligible for home fee status, the fee limits and student support when they acquire their settled status during an academic year,\n(c) update the categories of students in the 2007 Regulations, the 2015 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, relating to persons settled in the United Kingdom from the British overseas territories, to provide for British citizens of Chagossian descent to satisfy the ordinary residence requirements under those categories, so that such persons are eligible for home fee status, the fee limits and student support,\n(d) provide for students undertaking a sandwich year to qualify for a disabled student’s grant under the 2018 Regulations, so far as it relates to the provision of technical support, repairs or replacement in respect of equipment previously provided or approved for them under such a grant,\n(e) provide for students who are care leavers to qualify for the lower deduction available when calculating the amount of grant for travel payable to them under the 2018 Regulations,\n(f) omit references to domicile in provisions relating to the calculation or treatment of income under the 2014 Regulations, the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, which will become redundant as a result of changes to the taxation of non-UK domiciled individuals from 6 April 2025,\n(g) make corrections to the 2017 Regulations and the 2018 Regulations, in connection with amendments made to each of those Regulations by the Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023, to clarify the extent of a particular period of time and to replace an erroneous term in the Welsh language text respectively, and\n(h) omit redundant provisions relating to the KESS 2 Scheme in the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, which are redundant as a result of the closure of that scheme.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. A copy can be obtained from the Strategy and Funding Division, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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