{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-166",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-166.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/166",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "166",
  "heading": "Amount of grant",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the grant under this Part is the amount that the Secretary of State considers appropriate in accordance with the student’s circumstances.\n(1A) Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of the grant under this Part for additional expenditure on a computer is an amount equal to the expenditure the student is obliged to incur less £200.\n(2) The amount of the grant in respect of an academic year—\n(a) for expenditure other than travel expenditure, must not exceed £27,783;\n(b) for travel expenditure, must not exceed an amount equal to that expenditure.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the grant under this Part is payable in respect of the four quarters of the academic year ...\n(5) Where an event falling within regulation 160(1)(a) or (c) occurs in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a grant under this Part in respect of—\n(a) the quarter in which the relevant event occurs, and\n(b) if relevant, such quarters as begin after the relevant event occurs.\n(6) Where an event falling within regulation 160(1)(b) occurs, a student may qualify for a grant under this Part in respect of the four quarters of the first academic year.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 166(1) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b)(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 25(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 166(1A) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(4)(b)(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2765), regs. 1(4)(a), 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 166(2) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b)(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 25(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 166(2)(a) substituted (6.3.2025) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/162), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2 (with reg. 2(2)(c)(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 166(3) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b)(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 25(7)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 166(4)(5) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1653), regs. 1(2)(a), 35"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 166(4) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b)(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 25(7)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 166(5) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(4)(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/74), regs. 1, 31(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 166(5) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b)(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 25(7)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 166(6) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(4)(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/74), regs. 1, 31(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1986/regulation/166",
    "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."
}