# The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017, Regulation 49: Students becoming eligible during the course of an academic year

Extent: E+W

(1) Where a student becomes an eligible student during the course of an academic year as a result of one of the events listed in paragraph (2), the student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of such quarters of that academic year in respect of which a loan for living costs is payable as begin after the relevant event in paragraph (2) occurs.
(2) The events are—
(a) the student’s course becomes a designated course;
(b) the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent (as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 1) is recognised as a refugee, becomes a person granted stateless leave, becomes a person with leave to enter or remain or becomes a person granted humanitarian protection under paragraph 339C of the immigration rules;
(ba) the student or the student’s parent becomes a person with section 67 leave to remain or a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected partner;
(bb) the student becomes a person with Calais leave;
(bc) the student becomes a protected Ukrainian national or the spouse, civil partner, child or step-child of such a person;
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(d) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 2(1)(a) or 3(1)(a) of Schedule 1;
(e) where regulation 4(2A)(a) applies, the student becomes a person described in paragraph 12(a) of Schedule 1;
(f) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6A(1)(a) of Schedule 1 or, where regulation 4(2A)(a) applies, in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1; ...
(g) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 11A(a) of Schedule 1 or, where regulation 4(2A)(a) applies, in paragraph 11(1)(a) of Schedule 1; or
(h) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 9B(1)(a)(ii) of Schedule 1.
(3) An eligible student to whom paragraph (1) applies does not qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of any academic year beginning before the academic year in which the relevant event occurred.
(4) The maximum amount of loan for living costs payable is the aggregate of the maximum amount of loan for each quarter in respect of which the student qualifies for support under this regulation.
(5) The maximum amount of loan for living costs for each such quarter is one third of the maximum amount of loan for living costs which would apply for the academic year if the student fell into the category which applies to the relevant quarter for the duration of the academic year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/47/regulation/49 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-49
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