{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/191",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Period of eligibility – general rule",
  "text": "(1) A student's status as an eligible student in connection with a designated course is retained until the end of the student's period of eligibility unless terminated in accordance with regulation 19, 20, 22, 22A, 23, 23A, 23B, 23C, 23D, 23E, 23F or 23G.\n(2) A student's period of eligibility ends at the end of the academic year in which the student completes the designated course.\n(3) But if—\n(a) the designated course is a full-time or sandwich course, and\n(b) regulation 14, 15 or 16 applies to the student,\nthe student's period of eligibility for the course is restricted to the maximum period of eligibility specified in the applicable regulation for the category of support specified in that regulation.\n(4) Where a student's eligibility for support is restricted under regulation 14, 15 or 16 so that the number of academic years in respect of which the category of support specified in the regulation in question is available is less than the ordinary duration of the present course, the category of support so specified is available in respect of the latest academic years of the course.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(1) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/481), regs. 1(2), 117"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(1) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/79), regs. 1(2), 34"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(1) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 3 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Ukrainian Nationals and Family Members) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/764), regs. 2, 38"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:24:02.114980+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."
}