{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/32",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment to the 2009 Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 5 (eligible students)—\n(a) after paragraph (11F) insert—\n“(11G) Where—\n(a) the Department determined that, by virtue of being a person satisfying the criteria in paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 (eligible students: long residence), a person (“A”) was an eligible student in connection with—\n(i) an application for support for an earlier year of the current course;\n(ii) an application for support for a course in relation to which the current course is an end-on course; or\n(iii) an application for support in connection with a designated part-time course, designated distance learning course or other designated course from which A’s status as an eligible part-time student, eligible distance learning student or eligible student has been transferred to the current course; and\n(b) as at the day before the academic year in respect of which A is applying for support begins, the period for which A was granted leave to stay in the United Kingdom has expired and—\n(i) no further leave to remain has been granted;\n(ii) no appeal is pending (within the meaning of section 104 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002); and\n(iii) A has not become a British or Irish citizen,\nA’s status as an eligible student terminates immediately before the first day of the academic year in respect of which A is applying for support.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 16.3.2025 with application in accordance with reg. 1(7)(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 5 was amended by S.S.I. 2007 No. 503, S.R.s 2010 No. 383, 2013 No. 128, 2017 No. 7, 2019 No. 35, 2021 Nos. 50 and 85, 2022 No. 75, 2024 Nos. 19 and 157."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/32/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:44.027460+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."
}