# The Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master's Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019, Paragraph 6: Separation of eligible student's parents

Extent: E+W

(1) Where the eligible student's parents are separated for the duration of the current academic year, only the residual income of the parent selected under sub-paragraph (3) is aggregated for the purposes of Step 1 in paragraph 3(1).
(2) Where the student's parents have separated during the current academic year the residual income of the eligible student's parents, for the purposes of Step 1 in paragraph 3(1), is the aggregate of—
(a) the residual income of both parents for the applicable financial year multiplied by X/52, and
(b) the residual income of the parent selected under sub-paragraph (3) for the applicable financial year multiplied by Y/52,
where—
X is the number of weeks in the current academic year during which the parents were not separated, and
Y is the number of weeks in the current academic year during which the parents were separated.
(3) Where sub-paragraph (1) or (2) applies, the Welsh Ministers must select the parent whose residual income it is the most appropriate to take into account in the circumstances.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/895/schedule/3/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-postgraduate-masters-degrees-wales-regulations-2019/schedule-3/paragraph-6
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