# The Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011, Paragraph 10A

Extent: E+W

(1) A person who—
(a) is an EU national ... on the first day of the first academic year of the course;
(b) is ordinarily resident in England on the first day of the first academic year of the course;
(c) has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the five-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and
(d) in a case where the person’s ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (c) was wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education, was ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, the European Economic Area and Switzerland immediately prior to the period of ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (c).
(2) Where a state accedes to the EU after the first day of the first academic year of the course and a person is a national of that state, the requirement in paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1) to be an EU national ... on the first day of the first academic year of the course is treated as being satisfied.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1986/schedule/1/paragraph/10A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-10A
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