Regulation 7 Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

In regulation 106 (Students becoming eligible during the course of the academic year), after paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A)

Where one of the events listed in sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (f), (g), (h) or (i) of paragraph (4) occurs in the course of an academic year—

(a)

a student may qualify for a distance learning fee loan in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part, provided that the relevant event occurred within the first three months of the academic year; and

(b)

a distance learning fee loan is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.”.