{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-loans-regulations-1997/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1675",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Loans) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-loans-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The conditions prescribed for the purposes of regulation 4(l)(b)(i) are that, subject to paragraphs 3 and 4 below, the student—\n(a) is on the relevant date ordinarily resident in England and Wales for the purposes of the Education Act 1962, read with the regulations for the time being in force made under section 1 of and Schedule 1 to that Act (but disregarding any provision in such regulations corresponding to paragraph 3 of this Schedule);\n(b) is on the relevant date settled in the United Kingdom within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971, unless he is such a person as is mentioned in paragraph 2 below;\n(c) throughout the three years preceding the relevant date has been ordinarily resident in the British Islands or, in the case of such a person as is mentioned in paragraph 2 below, has been so resident in the European Economic Area; and\n(d) has not during any part of the said three year period been resident in the British Islands or, in the case of such a person as is mentioned in paragraph 2 below, the European Economic Area wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 12; the relevant provisions, as amended, are set out in Schedule 5 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The regulations which will be in force from 1st September 1996 are Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3321) and the provision therein corresponding to paragraph 3 of the Schedule to these Regulations is regulation 5(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1971 c. 77; amended by the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), section 39 and Schedule 4, by the Immigration Act 1988 (c. 14), sections 1, 3, 4, 6 and 10 and the Schedule, by the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 (c. 23), sections 10 to 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2919",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Student Loans) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1675/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:04.751397+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."
}