Regulation 12 Amendment of regulation 13 of the 2005 Regulations

For paragraphs (7) and (8) of regulation 13 of the 2005 Regulations, substitute—

“(7)

Where one of the events listed in paragraph (8) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a grant in accordance with this Part in respect of all or part of that academic year but he does not qualify for a grant for living costs in respect of any academic year beginning before the relevant event occurred.

(8)

The events are—

(a)

the student’s course becomes a designated course;

(b)

the student, his spouse, his civil partner or his parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2);

(c)

the state of which the student is a national accedes to the European Community where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;

(d)

the student acquires the right of permanent residence (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 2);

(e)

the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 2; or

(f)

the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.”.