{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-postgraduate-masters-degrees-wales-regulations-2019/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-postgraduate-masters-degrees-wales-regulations-2019/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2019/895",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master's Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-postgraduate-masters-degrees-wales-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Transfer of status",
  "text": "(1) Where an eligible student (“P”) transfers from a designated course to another designated course (“the new course”), the Welsh Ministers must transfer the student's status as an eligible student to the new course if—\n(a) they receive a request from the student to do so,\n(b) they are satisfied that one of the grounds for transfer applies (see paragraph (2)), and\n(c) the student's period of eligibility has not terminated.\n(2) The grounds for transfer are—\n(a) on the recommendation of the academic authority P ceases one designated course and starts to undertake another designated course at the same institution; or\n(b) P starts to undertake a designated course at another institution.\n(3) Where P transfers under paragraph (1), P is entitled to receive in connection with the course to which P transfers, the remainder of the support, if any, in accordance with regulation 33 and where relevant regulation 36 or 36A, in respect of the course from which P transfers.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(3) inserted (8.5.2024) by The Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master’s Degrees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/501), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 27.5.2019, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/895/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:17.428535+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."
}