{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-54.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/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Qualifying conditions for a maintenance loan",
  "text": "An eligible student qualifies for a maintenance loan in respect of an academic year of the present course unless one of the following exceptions applies—\nException 1 The eligible student is a prisoner, unless—\n(a) the present course is a part-time course, and\n(b) the eligible student enters or is released from prison in the academic year in question.\nException 2 The only paragraph or paragraphs of Schedule 2 into which the eligible student falls is one or more of paragraphs 1(2)(d)(ii), 1(3), 4A(1)(b)(ii), 4A(2)(b)(ii), 6(1), 6A(1), 6A(2)(d)(ii), 6BA, 6BB, 6C, 6D, 7A(c)(ii) or 8A(1)(d)(ii).\nException 3 The eligible student is aged 60 or over on the first day of the first academic year of the present course.\nException 4 The present course is a distance learning course and the student (“S”) is not in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.\nBut this exception does not apply where S is not in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course because S, or a close relative of S, is serving as a member of the armed forces outside Wales.\n...",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54 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), 122"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54 substituted (22.2.2023) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/87), regs. 1(2), 40 (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54 substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/708), regs. 1(2), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54 substituted (5.2.2026 with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/3), regs. 1(2), 2, 34"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54 omitted (30.7.2018) by virtue of The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/814), regs. 1(2), 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/54",
    "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."
}