{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-88.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2017/47",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/88",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Grants for disabled part-time students’ living costs",
  "text": "(1) An eligible part-time student qualifies in accordance with this regulation for a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs to assist with the additional expenditure which the Welsh Ministers are satisfied the student is obliged to incur in connection with the eligible part-time student undertaking a designated part-time course by reason of a disability to which the eligible part-time student is subject.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the amount of grant for which an eligible part-time student qualifies under this regulation is the amount that the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate.\n(3) The amount of the grant must not exceed—\n(a) £34,671 in respect of an academic year for expenditure on a non-medical personal helper, major items of specialist equipment and any other expenditure the eligible part-time student incurs in connection with the course by reason of the student’s disability (apart from the expenditure specified in sub-paragraph (b)); and\n(b) the additional expenditure incurred—\n(i) within the United Kingdom for the purpose of attending the institution; and\n(ii) within or outside the United Kingdom for the purpose of attending, as part of the eligible part-time student’s course, any period of study at an overseas institution or for the purpose of attending the Institute.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (6), a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs is payable to an eligible part-time student in respect of the four quarters of the academic year.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Where regulation 82(3) applies, an eligible part-time student may only qualify for a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs for the purposes specified in paragraph (3)(a) and (b) in respect of the academic year from the date that the relevant event listed in regulation 82(4) occurs.\n(7) Subject to paragraph (8), a new eligible part-time student does not qualify for a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs if the new eligible part-time student is a prisoner.\n(8) Paragraph (7) does not apply in respect of an academic year during which the new eligible part-time student enters prison or is released from prison.\n(9) An eligible part-time student who is not a new eligible part-time student does not qualify for a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs in relation to an academic year of a designated part-time course if the intensity of study during that year is less than 50 per cent.\n(10) A new eligible part-time student does not qualify for a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs in relation to an academic year of a designated part-time course if the intensity of study during that year is less than 25 per cent.\n(11) For the purposes of paragraphs (9) and (10) the intensity of study during an academic year of a designated part-time course is to be calculated in accordance with regulation 85(2) and (3).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 88(3) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/73), reg. 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 88(3)(a) substituted (12.2.2026 with application in accordance with reg. 2(1)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Amounts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/11), regs. 1(2), 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88(4) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/73), reg. 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 88(5) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/73), reg. 5(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88(6) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/73), reg. 5(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 88 in force at 17.2.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/47/regulation/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:27:59.837199+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."
}