{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2009/regulation-151",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2009/regulation-151.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1555",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/151",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "151",
  "heading": "Students becoming eligible in the course of an academic year",
  "text": "(1) Where one of the events listed in paragraph (2) occurs in the course of an academic year—\n(a) a student may qualify for a grant under this Part in respect of that academic year in accordance with this Part; and\n(b) a grant of the kind available under this Part is not available in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.\n(2) The events are—\n(a) the student’s course becomes a designated postgraduate course;\n(b) the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee or becomes a person with leave to enter or remain;\n(c) the state of which the student is a national accedes to the European Community where the student has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course;\n(d) the student acquires the right of permanent residence (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1);\n(e) the student becomes the child of a Turkish worker;\n(f) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1; or\n(g) the student becomes the child of a Swiss national.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/87",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1555/regulation/151",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:10:38.231125+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."
}