{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-62.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/62",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Qualifying conditions for disabled student's grant",
  "text": "(1) An eligible student qualifies for a disabled student's grant in respect of an academic year of the present course if—\n(a) the student has a disability, and\n(b) the student does not fall within any of the exceptions in paragraph (2).\n(2) The exceptions are—\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\nThe 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\nThe present course is a full-time course and the academic year is a year in respect of which the student is eligible to apply for a healthcare bursary calculated by reference to the student’s income (whether or not the calculation results in a nil amount).\nException 4\nThe eligible student is undertaking an academic year of an accelerated graduate entry course, other than the first year of the course.\nException 5\nThe 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.\nException 6\nThe eligible student is undertaking an academic year of a sandwich course during which the periods of full-time study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks (unless it is a year to which regulation 44(2) applies).\nBut this exception does not apply in respect of a disabled student’s grant so far as it relates to the provision of technical support, repairs or replacement in respect of equipment belonging to the student, where—\n(a) that equipment was—\n(i) funded wholly or partly by a disabled student’s grant, or\n(ii) approved by the Welsh Ministers for use by the student for the purposes of a disabled student’s grant, and\n(b) the disabled student’s grant referred to in paragraph (a) was approved in respect of—\n(i) a previous academic year of the present course, or\n(ii) an academic year of a previous course, where the student has received confirmation from the Welsh Ministers that that grant will be transferred to the present course.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 62(2) 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), 123"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 62(2) substituted (22.2.2023) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/87), regs. 1(2), 41 (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 62(2) substituted (4.1.2024) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1349), regs. 1(2), 47"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 62 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), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 62 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": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 62(2) inserted (3.2.2025) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/16), regs. 1(2), 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/62",
    "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."
}