# The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018, Regulation 54: Qualifying conditions for a maintenance loan

Extent: E+W

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—
Exception 1 The eligible student is a prisoner, unless—
(a) the present course is a part-time course, and
(b) the eligible student enters or is released from prison in the academic year in question.
Exception 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).
Exception 3 The eligible student is aged 60 or over on the first day of the first academic year of the present course.
Exception 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.
But 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.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/54 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-54
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