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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Regulations amend the Education (Student Loans for Tuition Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (“the 2006 Regulations”) (S.S.I. 2006/333) and the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/154).\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 3 of the 2006 Regulations (eligible students) to remove the reference to persons who hold a first degree from an educational institution in the United Kingdom or a comparable qualification from an educational institution outside the United Kingdom.\nRegulation 3 amends the definition of “loan” in regulation 2 of the 2007 Regulations (interpretation) to provide that references to “loan” mean, for a student undertaking a full-time vocational course leading to a Postgraduate Diploma or a Postgraduate masters degree, a loan towards that student’s tuition fees or a loan towards that student’s maintenance. It also substitutes regulation 3(2A) to provide that the age restrictions in paragraph (2)(b) of regulation 3 do not apply when assessing the eligibility of such a student for a loan towards that student’s tuition fees. The age restrictions will continue to apply when assessing the eligibility of such a student for a loan towards that student’s maintenance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/212/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:29:09.186751+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."
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