{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-139B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-139B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1986",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/139B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "139B",
  "heading": "Conversion of status from eligible student to eligible part-time student",
  "text": "(1) Where an eligible student ceases to undertake a designated course and transfers to a designated part-time course at the same or at another institution, the Secretary of State must convert the student’s status as an eligible student to that of an eligible part-time student in connection with the course to which the student is transferring where—\n(a) the Secretary of State receives a request from the eligible student to do so; and\n(b) the period of eligibility has not terminated.\n(2) Where, before completing the designated course, the student transfers to a part-time course in the same subject or subjects leading to the same qualification at the same institution, the part-time course is to be treated as satisfying regulation 139(1)(b) and (c) if the period of part-time study to be undertaken by the student is of at least one academic year’s duration and does not exceed four times the period ordinarily required to complete the remainder of the designated course from which the student transfers.\n(3) The following applies to a student (“A”) who transfers under paragraph (1)—\n(a) where the Secretary of State has determined prior to the transfer that A is entitled to disabled students’ allowance, that entitlement terminates on the date of the transfer and no payments or further payments (including instalments) of that grant must be made after that date;\n(b) the Secretary of State must determine whether A is entitled to disabled part-time students’ allowance for the remainder of the academic year in which A transfers;\n(c) where in accordance with sub-paragraph (b) the Secretary of State determines that A is entitled to disabled part-time students’ allowance, the maximum amount of that grant as set out in regulation 147(6)(a) is reduced by any sums of disabled students’ allowance, other than sums in relation to travel costs, paid to A in respect of the academic year in which A transfers;\n(d) where immediately before A became an eligible part-time student A was eligible to apply, but had not applied, for a loan for living costs under Part 6 in respect of that academic year, or had not applied for the maximum amount or increased maximum to which A was entitled under that Part, A may apply for such a loan, or such additional amount of loan, as if A had continued to be an eligible student.\n(4) Except where paragraph (5) applies, where a transfer under paragraph (1) is made—\n(a) the maximum amount of any loan under Part 6 to which the student would, apart from this regulation, be entitled in connection with a designated course in respect of that academic year is reduced—\n(i) by two thirds, where the student transfers to a designated part-time course at the beginning of the second quarter of that academic year;\n(ii) by one third, where the student transfers to a designated part-time course at the beginning of the third quarter of that academic year; and\n(b) the maximum amount of any loan under Part 11B to which the student would be entitled in connection with the designated part-time course in respect of that academic year if the student had been an eligible part-time student throughout that year is reduced—\n(i) by one third, where the student transfers to a designated part-time course at the beginning of the second quarter of that academic year;\n(ii) by two thirds, where the student transfers to a designated part-time course at the beginning of the third quarter of that academic year.\n(5) This paragraph applies where an eligible student—\n(a) transfers under paragraph (1); and\n(b) ceases to undertake the designated course and starts to undertake the designated part-time course in the same quarter of an academic year (“the conversion year”).\n(6) Where paragraph (5) applies—\n(a) the amount of loan under Part 6 to which the student is entitled for the conversion year in respect of the designated course is—\n(A/B)×Cwhere—\nA is the number of days of the designated course which the student undertakes in the conversion year;\nB is the length of the designated course, in days, in the conversion year;\nC is the maximum amount of loan to which the student would be entitled in the conversion year under Part 6 were it not for the transfer; and\n(b) the amount of loan under Part 11B to which the student is entitled for the conversion year in respect of the designated part-time course is—\n(D/E)×Fwhere—\nD is the number of days of the designated part-time course which the student undertakes in the conversion year;\nE is the length of the designated part-time course, in days, in the conversion year;\nF is the maximum amount of loan to which the student would be entitled in the conversion year under Part 11B if the student had been an eligible part-time student throughout that year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 139A-139D inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/472), regs. 1(2)(a), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 139B(2) substituted (26.11.2020) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 139B(3) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/669), regs. 1(1), 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1986/regulation/139B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:58:47.473982+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."
}