# The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018, Regulation 57: Increased maintenance loan for full-time students in extended years Extent: E+W (1) Paragraph (2) applies where— (a) the present course is a full-time course, and (b) an eligible student is required to undertake the course for a period exceeding 30 weeks and 3 days in an academic year. (2) Where this paragraph applies, the amount of loan payable to the student calculated under regulation 55 or, as the case may be, 56 is increased by the weekly amount specified in Column 3 of Table 9 for each week (or part of a week) that the student is required to undertake the course beyond the period of 30 weeks and 3 days. (3) Paragraph (4) applies where— (a) the present course is a full-time course, and (b) an eligible student undertakes the course for a period of 45 weeks or more in any continuous period of 52 weeks. (4) Where this paragraph applies, the amount of loan payable to the student calculated under regulation 55 or, as the case may be, 56 is increased by the weekly amount specified in Column 3 of Table 9 for each whole week in the 52 week period during which the student did not undertake the course. (5) The increase in the amount of maintenance loan payable referred to in paragraph (4) applies in relation to the academic year into which the most weeks of the 52 week period fall. (6) The maximum amount of maintenance loan payable to an eligible student may be increased under both paragraphs (2) and (4) in relation to the same academic year. (7) In Table 9— (a) Column 1 specifies the academic year in relation to which the maintenance loan is payable; (b) Column 2 specifies the location in which the student is living (see paragraph 3 of Schedule 1); (c) Column 3 specifies the weekly amount by which the amount of loan payable is to increase in respect of the corresponding entries in Columns 1 and 2. Table 9 Column 1Academic Year Column 2Location of student Column 3Weekly amount of increase to maintenance loan payable Beginning on or after 1 September 2018 but before 1 September 2019 Living at home £80 Living away from home, studying in London £153 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £120 Beginning on or after 1 September 2019 but before 1 September 2020 Living at home £84 Living away from home, studying in London £162 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £127 Beginning on or after 1 September 2020 but before 1 September 2021 Living at home £86 Living away from home, studying in London £167 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £131 Beginning on or after 1 September 2021 but before 1 September 2022 Living at home £89 Living away from home, studying in London £172 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £135 Beginning on or after 1 September 2022 but before 1 September 2023 Living at home £91 Living away from home, studying in London £176 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £138 Beginning on or after 1 September 2023 but before 1 September 2024 Living at home £93 Living away from home, studying in London £179 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £141 Beginning on or after 1 September 2024 but before 1 September 2025 Living at home £94 Living away from home, studying in London £181 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £142 Beginning on or after 1 September 2025 but before 1 September 2026 Living at home £96 Living away from home, studying in London £184 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £144 Beginning on or after 1 September 2026 Living at home £98 Living away from home, studying in London £188 Living away from home, studying elsewhere £147 (8) But this regulation does not apply to an academic year— (a) in respect of which the student has been bestowed or paid a healthcare bursary calculated by reference to the student’s income, whether or not the calculation results in a nil amount, or (b) of a sandwich course where the periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks unless the periods of work experience constitute unpaid service. (9) For the purposes of paragraph (8), “unpaid service” means— (a) unpaid service in a hospital or in a public health service laboratory or with a primary care trust in the United Kingdom, (b) unpaid service with a local authority in the United Kingdom acting in the exercise of their functions relating to the care of children and young persons, health or welfare, or with a voluntary organisation providing facilities or carrying out activities of a like nature in the United Kingdom, (c) unpaid service in the prison or probation and aftercare service in the United Kingdom, (d) unpaid research in an institution in the United Kingdom or, in the case of an eligible student attending an overseas institution as part of the eligible student’s course, in an overseas institution, or (e) unpaid service with— (i) a Special Health Authority established pursuant to section 28 of the National Health Service Act 2006, (ii) a Local Health Board established pursuant to section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 or a Special Health Authority established pursuant to section 22 of that Act, (iii) a Health Board or a Special Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, (iv) the Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Well-being established under section 12 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009, (v) NHS England, the body corporate established under section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006 or an integrated care board established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of that Act, or (vi) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence established under section 232 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/57 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-57 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 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