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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-no2-amendment-and-education-student-loan-repayment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/7",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (No.2) (Amendment) and Education (Student Loan) (Repayment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-no2-amendment-and-education-student-loan-repayment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "text": "In regulation 117 (Conversion of status – eligible students transferring to designated distance learning courses)\n(a) in paragraph (1), after “which”, insert “the”;\n(b) after paragraph (3), add—\n“(4) This paragraph makes provision for fee loan and distance learning fee loan where a student (“A”) transfers under paragraph (1)—\n(a) no payment in respect of any fee loan must be made in respect of any instalment period beginning after the date on which A became an eligible distance learning student;\n(b) any fee loan to which A was entitled under Part 4 immediately before A became an eligible distance learning student is ignored in determining the amount of distance learning fee loan to which A may be entitled in respect of that year under this Part;\n(c) where the designated distance learning course into which A transfers continues in the same quarter of the same academic year of the designated course from which A transferred, the maximum amount of distance learning fee loan to which A would, apart from this regulation, be entitled to borrow in connection with undertaking a designated distance learning course in respect of that academic year is reduced by one third where A became an eligible distance learning student in the second quarter of the academic year and by two thirds where A became such a student in a later quarter of the academic year; and\n(d) where the academic year of the designated distance learning course into which A transfers begins on a later date than the academic year of the designated course from which A is transferring, the maximum amount of distance learning fee loan to which A would be entitled to borrow in connection with that academic year, provided that the student qualifies for a distance learning fee loan in respect of that year, is the lesser of –\n(i) £3,022.50; and\n(ii) the fees payable by the student in connection with that year,\nminus any grant paid under regulation 109(1)(a) in connection with that year.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/7/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:53:36.151537+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."
}