{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-finance-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-7.json",
  "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",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Schedule, in paragraph 1, in the definition of “person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected partner”—\n(a) in the words before sub-paragraph (1), for “under any of the following provisions of the immigration rules” substitute “granted in any of the following cases”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (1), in the opening words, after “31 January 2024,” insert “under”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (2), in the opening words, after “31 January 2024,” insert “under”;\n(d) after sub-paragraph (2) insert—\n“(3) in the case of a person granted leave to enter or remain on or after 5 October 2023 as a bereaved partner, under paragraph AF (GHK) 14.1 of Appendix Gurkha and Hong Kong military unit veteran discharged before 1 July 1997 of the immigration rules;\n(4) in the case of a person granted leave to enter or remain before 5 October 2023, outside the immigration rules, on the basis that the person was a bereaved partner of a Gurkha discharged before 1 July 1997;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Appendix Gurkha and Hong Kong military unit veteran discharged before 1 July 1997 was added to the immigration rules by the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules laid before Parliament on 7 September 2023 (HC 1780). An electronic copy of HC 1780 is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-changes-to-the-immigration-rules-hc-1780-7-september-2023."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/3/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:07.372354+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."
}