{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2008/regulation-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2008/regulation-61.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Qualifying conditions for the higher education grant",
  "text": "(1) An old system student qualifies in accordance with this regulation for a higher education grant in connection with his attendance on a designated course to defray the cost of books, equipment, travel or childcare incurred for the purpose of attending that course.\n(2) An old system student does not qualify for a higher education grant unless he began the specified designated course on or after 1st September 2004.\n(3) If an old system student does not qualify for a grant for fees in respect of an academic year of the designated course, he cannot qualify for a higher education grant for that year unless the reason that he does not qualify for a grant for fees 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. 61 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/529",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/529/regulation/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:35:39.347199+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."
}