{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-no2-regulations-2008/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-no2-regulations-2008/regulation-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1582",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (No.2) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-no2-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Qualifying conditions for the special support grant",
  "text": "(1) A current system student qualifies in accordance with this regulation for a special support grant in connection with the student’s attendance on a designated course to defray the costs of books, equipment, travel or childcare incurred for the purpose of attending that course.\n(2) A current system student qualifies for a special support grant if the student—\n(a) falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; or\n(b) is treated as being liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling prescribed by regulations made under section 130(2) of that Act.\n(3) If a current system student does not qualify for a fee loan in respect of an academic year of the designated course, the student cannot qualify for a special support grant for that year unless the reason that the student does not qualify for a fee loan is that—\n(a) the year is an Erasmus year; or\n(b) the designated course is an old flexible postgraduate course for the initial training of teachers.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 59 in force at 1.9.2008, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.4 inserted by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c.18), Schedule 2 paragraph 30 (5). The relevant regulation is regulation 4ZA of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967). Regulation 4ZA was inserted by S.I. 1996/206, amended by S.I. 2000/1981 and S.I. 2006/2144; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "There are amendments to section 130 which are not relevant to these Regulations. The relevant regulation is regulation 56 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/213, as amended by S.I. 2006/718)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1582",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Student Support) (No.2) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1582/regulation/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:36:41.950750+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."
}