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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2026",
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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.\nPart 2 and Parts 4 to 8 make amendments to the following regulations—\n(a) Part 2 amends the Education (Fees and Awards) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2310 (W. 181)) (“the 2007 Regulations”),\n(b) Part 4 amends the Higher Education (Qualifying Courses, Qualifying Persons and Supplementary Provision) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1484 (W. 163)) (“the 2015 Regulations”),\n(c) Part 5 amends the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/47 (W. 21)) (“the 2017 Regulations”),\n(d) Part 6 amends the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/191 (W. 42)) (“the 2018 Regulations”),\n(e) Part 7 amends the Education (Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/656 (W. 124)) (“the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations”), and\n(f) Part 8 amends the Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master’s Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/895 (W. 161)) (“the 2019 Regulations”).\nParts 2 and 4 to 8 of these Regulations amend—\n(a) references to Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles in the 2007 Regulations, the 2015 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, to reflect changes in the status of those territories,\n(b) provisions in the 2007 Regulations and the 2015 Regulations requiring a student’s presence in the United Kingdom on the first day of a course, to clarify the requirements for persons falling into paragraphs 2A and 8A of the Schedules to those Regulations,\n(c) the definitions of “person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected partner” in the 2007 Regulations, the 2015 Regulations, the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, to include persons granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as bereaved partners of Gurkha and Hong Kong military unit veterans discharged before 1 July 1997, so that such persons and their children are eligible for home fee status, the fee limits and student support,\n(d) the definition of a “protected Ukrainian national” in the 2007 Regulations, the 2015 Regulations, the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, to reflect the addition of a new Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme to Appendix Ukraine Scheme of the immigration rules,\n(e) the ordinary residence requirements for protected Ukrainian nationals under the 2007 Regulations, the 2015 Regulations, the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations, the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, to ensure consistency with the wording of equivalent requirements for the family members of such persons,\n(f) the 2017 Regulations and the 2018 Regulations to remove obsolete references to Oxbridge college fee loans,\n(g) provisions relating to increased loans for living costs in the 2017 Regulations and 2018 Regulations, to ensure students who are already receiving healthcare bursaries in respect of these costs are not eligible, and to remove references to an obsolete public body in Northern Ireland,\n(h) the 2017 Regulations, the 2018 Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, to remove obsolete references to coronavirus provisions,\n(i) the process for calculating the amount of grants for dependants in the 2018 Regulations, as it applies to care leavers, to ensure such persons are eligible for the maximum amount, and\n(j) the Doctoral Degree Loan Regulations and the 2019 Regulations, so that eligibility for support will terminate where a person ceases to have leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as a protected partner.\nPart 3 revokes the Education (European University Institute) (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3037 (W. 303)) and makes consequential revocations and omissions.\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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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:07.372354+00:00"
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  "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."
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