{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-loans-repayment-regulations-2009/regulation-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-loans-repayment-regulations-2009/regulation-3B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/470",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-loans-repayment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Meaning of “plan 2 loan”",
  "text": "(1) A “plan 2 loan” is a loan mentioned in any of paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) A loan—\n(a) taken out by the person in respect of—\n(i) a course the person begins during the period beginning on 1st September 2012 and ending at the close of 31st July 2023,\n(ii) a course in relation to which the person has a variation of status from another course the person began during the period mentioned in paragraph (i), or\n(iii) an honours degree course the person begins, disregarding any intervening vacation, immediately after ceasing to attend or undertake an eligible course the person began during the period mentioned in paragraph (i) and for which the person achieved a qualification, and\n(b) paid under any of the following enactments—\n(i) the 2011 Support Regulations;\n(ii) the Further Education Loans Regulations 2012.\n(3) A loan—\n(a) taken out by the person in respect of a course the person begins during the period beginning on 1st September 2022 and ending at the close of 31st July 2025, and\n(b) paid under the Higher Education Short Course Loans Regulations 2022 (which apply in relation to England).\n(4) A loan—\n(a) taken out by the person in respect of a course the person begins on or after 1st September 2012, and\n(b) paid to the person under an enactment cited in the table (which apply in relation to Wales).\nTitle\nNumber\nThe Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (revoked)\nS.I. 2011/886 (W.130)\nThe Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2012 (revoked)\nS.I. 2012/3097 (W. 313)\nThe Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (revoked)\nS.I. 2013/3177 (W. 316)\nThe Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (revoked)\nS.I. 2015/54 (W. 5)\nThe Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017\nS.I. 2017/47 (W. 21)\nThe Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018\nS.I. 2018/191 (W. 42)\n(5) Despite paragraphs (1), (2) and (4), a loan taken out by the person for a course mentioned in regulation 3A(1)(a)(ii) or (iii) is a plan 1 loan.\n(6) In this regulation, “variation of status” means any of the following—\n(a) a conversion of status under regulation 139B or 139C of the 2011 Support Regulations;\n(b) a transfer of status under—\n(i) regulation 7 or 139A of the 2011 Support Regulations;\n(ii) regulation 8 of the Further Education Loans Regulations 2012.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 3A-3E inserted (6.4.2023) by The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1335), regs. 2(2), 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/470/regulation/3B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:16:41.591721+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."
}