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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2003",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Eligible students",
  "text": "(1) A student shall be an eligible student in relation to an academic year of a course for the purposes of section 22(1) of the Act and of these Regulations if—\n(a) he is a person mentioned in Schedule 1;\n(b) he is attending a designated course;\n(c) he is under the age of 50 years on the first day of the course;\n(d) he is not eligible to receive a loan in relation to the academic year of the course under the Education (Student Loans) Act 1990 or the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990;\n(e) he has not received a loan in relation to the academic year of another course which year ended after the first day of the academic year in question;\n(f) he is not eligible to receive in relation to the academic year—\n(i) any payment under a bursary or award of similar description bestowed on him under section 63 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 the amount of which is not calculated by reference to his income; or\n(ii) any allowance under the Nursing and Midwifery Student Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 1992;\n(g) he is not in breach of any obligation to repay any loan;\n(h) subject to paragraph (4) he has ratified any agreement for a loan made with him when he was under the age of 18; and\n(i) he has a bank or building society account into which any amount lent to him may be paid by electronic transfer.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) and Schedule 1 if with the agreement of the institution or institutions in question a student withdraws from a designated course without completing it and disregarding any intervening vacation immediately commences attending another designated course provided by the same or by a different institution the first day of the first course shall be regarded as the first day of the second course; or as the first day of a third or further course which the student has commenced attending in the same fashion.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(e), (g) and (h) “loan” includes a loan made under the Act, the Education (Student Loans) Act 1990, the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990, the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 or the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.\n(4) Paragraph (1)(h) shall only apply in a case where the agreement for a loan is subject to the law of Scotland if it was made—\n(a) before 25th September 1991, and\n(b) with the concurrence of the borrower’s curator, or at a time when he had no curator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 46; section 63 was amended by the National Health Services Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 4, paragraph 124 and Schedule 5, the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 45 and Schedule 16, the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 (c,.29), Schedule 16, paragraph 26(2) and Schedule 17, the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), sections 1, 2 and Schedule 1, Part I, paragraph 19(3), the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 17, the Family Practitioner Committees (Consequential Modifications) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/39), article 6(1), the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 20, section 25(2) and Schedule 3, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 1, paragraph 95(2), Schedule 13 paragraph 74(1) and (2) the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), Schedule 1, paragraph 95(1) and (2), the Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1008), the Schedule, paragraph 1, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), Schedule 2, paragraph 1(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/580."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2003/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:21:41.771312+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."
}