{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-61.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/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Qualifying conditions for the special support grant",
  "text": "(A1) A current system student who is a 2016 cohort student does not qualify for a special support grant.\n(1) A current system student qualifies in accordance with this regulation for a special support grant in connection with the student's attendance on a designated course (other than a distance learning course) to defray the costs of books, equipment, travel or childcare incurred for the purpose of attending that course.\n(2) A current system student qualifies for a special support grant if the student—\n(a) falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ; ...\n(b) is treated as being liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling prescribed by regulations made under section 130(2) of that Act ; ...\n(ba) satisfies one of sub-paragraphs (b), (d) and (e) of regulation 14(1) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013; ...\n(bb) has no partner and satisfies sub-paragraph (c) of regulation 14(1) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013; or\n(c) under regulation 25(3) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 is liable or treated as being liable to make payments in respect of the accommodation they occupy as their home.\n(3) If a current system student does not qualify for a fee loan in respect of an academic year of the designated course, the student cannot qualify for a special support grant for that year unless the reason that the student does not qualify for a fee loan is that—\n(a) the year is an Erasmus year in accordance with regulation 19(2) .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A current system student does not qualify for a special support grant if the current course is the graduate entry accelerated programme.\n(5) Subject to regulation (6), a special support grant is payable in respect of the four quarters of the academic year.\n(6) Where any of the following events occur in the course of an academic year, a student may qualify for a special support grant in respect of such quarters of the academic year as begin after the relevant event occurs—\n(a) a course designation event which results in the student’s course becoming a designated course; or\n(b) an event falling within regulation 2A(2)(c), (d), (e) or (f), or 2A(3)(a), (b) or (c), which results in the student becoming an eligible student.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) In this regulation, “partner” has the meaning given in regulation 42(1)(h).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 61(A1) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1951), regs. 1(3)(a), 23(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 61(2) omitted (29.4.2013) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 54(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 61(2)(c) and word inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 54(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 61(2) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)(a)(4) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 61(2)(ba) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)(a)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(2)(ba) substituted (5.3.2026) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards, Support and Loan Repayments) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/130), regs. 1(2), 6(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 61(2) omitted (5.3.2026) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards, Support and Loan Repayments) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/130), regs. 1(2), 6(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 61(2)(bb) inserted (5.3.2026) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards, Support and Loan Repayments) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/130), regs. 1(2), 6(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(3)(a) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support and European University Institute) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1728), regs. 1(2)(a), 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Full stop in reg. 61(3)(a) substituted for word (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1951), regs. 1(3)(a), 23(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 61(3)(b) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1951), regs. 1(3)(a), 23(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Reg. 61(5)-(7) 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), 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Reg. 61(6) 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, 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Reg. 61(7) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/127), regs. 1(1), 13(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Reg. 61(8) inserted (5.3.2026) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards, Support and Loan Repayments) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/130), regs. 1(2), 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c.4 inserted by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c.18), Schedule 2 paragraph 30 (5). The relevant regulation is regulation 4ZA of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967). Regulation 4ZA was inserted by S.I. 1996/206, amended by S.I. 2000/1981, S.I. 2006/2144, S.I.2008/1826 and S.I.2009/583; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "There are amendments to section 130 which are not relevant to these Regulations. The relevant regulation is regulation 56 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/213, as amended by S.I. 2006/718, S.I.2008/1042, S.I.2008/1082 and 2009/583)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1986/regulation/61",
    "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."
}