# The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018, Regulation 19: Early termination of eligibility

Extent: E+W

(1) An eligible student's (“P's”) period of eligibility terminates at the end of the day on which—
(a) P withdraws from P's designated course and the Welsh Ministers do not transfer P's status as an eligible student under regulation 28, or
(b) P abandons or is expelled from P's designated course.
(2) Where—
(a) an eligible student's (“P's”) designated course is a distance learning course, and
(b) P undertakes the course outside the United Kingdom,
P's period of eligibility terminates at the beginning of the first day on which P undertakes the course outside the United Kingdom.
(3) But paragraph (2) does not apply if P is undertaking a distance learning course outside the United Kingdom because P or a close relative of P is serving as a member of the armed forces.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-19
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