Regulation 3 Amendment of the 2002 and 2005 Regulations

The 2002 Regulations shall be amended as follows.

After regulation 6(2)(d) there is inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(e)

he is a person mentioned in paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 the application must reach the Secretary of State not later than 15th March 2006 or 9 months after the first day of the academic year, whichever is the later.”

After paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 there is inserted the following paragraph—

“9.

A person who on the first day of the first academic year of the course is a national of a Member State of the European Community or the child of such a national—

(a)

who is claiming a grant or loan for living costs in respect of an academic year beginning on or after 1 September 2004;

(b)

who is ordinarily resident in England and Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course; and

(c)

who has been ordinarily resident throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course in the United Kingdom and Islands.”