{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/regulation-68.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/68",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 6",
  "text": "In this Part—\n(a) a current system student “with full entitlement” is a current system student other than a student with reduced entitlement;\n(b) “the maintenance grant amount” is, unless otherwise stated,—\n(i) where the student qualifies under Chapter 6 of Part 5 for an amount of maintenance grant not exceeding £1,749, the amount of maintenance grant payable;\n(ii) where the student qualifies under Chapter 6 of Part 5 for an amount of maintenance grant exceeding £1,749, £1,749; and\n(iii) where no maintenance grant is payable, nil.\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) the “relevant date” is the first day of the first academic year of the specified designated course;\n(e) a “student with reduced entitlement” is an eligible student who—\n(i) does not qualify for a grant for living and other costs in respect of the academic year because of regulation 38(4)(a) ... or 38(6); or\n(ii) is not an eligible care leaver and opts when applying for a loan for living costs not to provide the information needed to calculate the household income;\n(f) where the duration of a graduate-entry or postgraduate-level course for the initial training of teachers is only one academic year, that year is not to be treated as the final year ;\n(g) a “loan for living costs” is a loan for maintenance only, except where paragraph (h) or (i) applies;\n(h) a “loan for living costs” where regulation 71(1)(h) applies, is a loan for maintenance and, where applicable, a special support loan;\n(i) a “loan for living costs” where regulation 71(1)(i) applies, is a special support loan only;\n(j) a “long courses loan” is a loan for maintenance;\n(k) a “special support loan” is a loan to defray the costs of books, equipment, travel or childcare incurred for the purpose of attending a designated course.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(a) substituted (13.2.2020) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/48), regs. 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 68(b)(i) 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": "F3",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 68(b)(ii) 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": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 68(c) omitted (26.11.2020) by virtue of The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1203), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(e)(i) 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), 28(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(e)(ii) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(2)(b)(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards, Support and Loan Repayments) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/130), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)(4), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Semi-colon in reg. 68(f) substituted for full stop (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), 28(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 68(g)-(k) 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), 28(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1986/regulation/68",
    "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."
}