{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1951",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (Interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) in the definition of “2008 cohort student”—\n(aa) in sub-paragraph (i), insert “or” after “2008;”;\n(bb) omit sub-paragraph (ii);\n(ii) in the definition of “2009 cohort student”—\n(aa) in sub-paragraph (i), insert “or” after “previous course;”;\n(bb) omit sub-paragraph (ii);\n(iii) for the definition of “2012 cohort student”, substitute—\n““2012 cohort student” means a current system student who—\n(a) begins the current course on or after 1st September 2012 and before 1st August 2016 and is not a 2008, 2009 or 2016 cohort student;\n(b) transfers to the current course pursuant to regulation 7 on or after 1st August 2016 from a course that—\n(i) is not a distance learning course; and\n(ii) begins on or after 1st September 2012 and before 1st August 2016; or\n(c) begins an end-on course on or after 1st August 2016 immediately after ceasing to attend a course that begins on or after 1st September 2012 and before 1st August 2016;”;\n(iv) after the definition of “2012 cohort student”, insert—\n““2016 cohort student” means a current system student who—\n(a) begins the current course on or after 1st August 2016;\n(b) is not a 2008, 2009 or 2012 cohort student;\n(c) has not transferred to the current course pursuant to regulation 7 from a course that—\n(i) is not a distance learning course; and\n(ii) began before 1st August 2016; and\n(d) is not beginning an end-on course on or after 1st August 2016;”;\n(v) omit the definition of “college fee loan”;\n(vi) in the definition of “end-on course”—\n(aa) in sub-paragraph (e), after “beginning on or after 1st September 2012” insert “, but before 1st August 2016”;\n(bb) after sub-paragraph (g), insert—\n“(h) a full-time honours degree course beginning on or after 1st August 2016 which, disregarding any intervening vacation, a student begins to attend immediately after ceasing to attend a full-time course mentioned in paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 2 that is not a distance learning course or a full-time foundation or ordinary degree course that is not a distance learning course, which started before 1st August 2016, having achieved a qualification;”;\n(vii) in the definition of “fees”, omit “except in references to college fees”;\n(viii) omit the definition of “flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers”;\n(ix) omit the definition of “old flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers”;\n(x) in the definition of “Scottish healthcare allowance”, after “means any allowance” insert “(including a young students’ bursary or an independent students’ bursary)”;\n(xi) omit the definitions of “type 1 teacher training student”, “type 2 teacher training student” and “type 3 teacher training student”;\n(b) in paragraph (3) omit “Subject to paragraph (4),”;\n(c) omit paragraph (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1951/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:29:58.522849+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."
}