{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-157C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-157C.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/157C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "157C",
  "heading": "Applications for a loan for living costs",
  "text": "(1) A person (the “applicant”) must apply for a loan for living costs in connection with each academic year of a designated part-time course by completing and submitting to the Secretary of State an application in such form as the Secretary of State may require.\n(2) The application must be accompanied by such additional documentation as the Secretary of State may require.\n(3) The Secretary of State may take such steps and make such inquiries as the Secretary of State considers necessary to determine—\n(a) whether the applicant is an eligible part-time student;\n(b) whether the applicant qualifies for a loan for living costs; and\n(c) the amount of the loan payable, if any.\n(4) The Secretary of State must notify the applicant of whether the applicant qualifies for a loan for living costs and, if the applicant does qualify, the amount payable in respect of the academic year.\n(5) The general rule is that the application must reach the Secretary of State no later than the end of the ninth month of the academic year in respect of which it is submitted.\n(6) The general rule does not apply where—\n(a) an event falling within regulation 138A occurs after the first day of the academic year in respect of which the applicant is applying for a loan for living costs, in which case the application must reach the Secretary of State within a period of nine months beginning with the day on which the relevant event occurred;\n(b) the Secretary of State considers that, having regard to the circumstances of the particular case, the time limit should be relaxed, in which case the application must reach the Secretary of State not later than such date as the Secretary of State specifies;\n(c) the applicant is applying to borrow an additional amount of loan for living costs, in which case the application must reach the Secretary of State not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 11B 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), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 157C(6)(a) substituted (1.6.2023) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/521), regs. 1(1), 5(7) (with reg. 4(3)(a))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1986/regulation/157C",
    "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."
}