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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment to the 2009 Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 105 (eligible distance learning 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 distance learning student in connection with—\n(i) an application for support for an earlier year of the current distance learning course; or\n(ii) an application for support in connection with a designated course, designated part-time course or other designated distance learning course from which A’s status as an eligible student, eligible part-time student or eligible distance learning student has been transferred to the current distance learning 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 distance learning 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. 8 in operation at 16.3.2025 with application in accordance with reg. 1(7)(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 105 was amended by S.S.I. 2007 No. 503, S.R.s 2010 No. 383, 2019 No. 35, 2021 Nos. 50 and 85, 2022 Nos. 75 and 201, and 2024 Nos. 19 and 157."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/32/regulation/8",
    "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."
}