{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-81.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/81",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Qualifying for grants or maintenance loan during the academic year",
  "text": "(1) Where one of the events in paragraph (3) occurs, the eligible student may qualify for a grant or maintenance loan.\n(2) But the amount of grant or loan payable to the eligible student—\n(a) will only, in the case of a grant, be in respect of the remaining days of the academic year, and, in the case of a maintenance loan, only be in respect of the remaining term days of the academic year, in either case beginning with the day the relevant event occurs, and\n(b) in relation to a maintenance loan, will only be payable if it is a quarter in respect of which the loan would otherwise be payable under regulation 85(6) and (7).\n(3) The events are—\n(a) the student's course becomes a designated course;\n(b) the student becomes an eligible student on the grounds that–\n(i) the student or the student’s spouse, civil partner or parent is recognised as a refugee, becomes a person granted stateless leave, becomes a person with leave to enter or remain or becomes a person granted humanitarian protection under paragraph 339C of the immigration rules;\n(ia) the student or the student’s parent becomes a person with section 67 leave to remain or a person with leave to enter or remain as a protected partner;\n(ib) the student becomes a person with Calais leave;\n(ic) the student becomes a person with leave to enter or remain as a relevant Afghan citizen or the spouse, civil partner, child or stepchild of such a person;\n(id) the student becomes a protected Ukrainian national or the spouse, civil partner, child or stepchild of such a person;\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 1(1)(a) or (2)(a) of Schedule 2;\n(iv) where regulation 9(1A)(a) applies, the student becomes a person described in paragraph 8(1)(a) of Schedule 2;\n(v) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 4A(1)(a) of Schedule 2 or, where regulation 9(1A)(a) applies, in paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 2;\n(vi) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 7A(a) of Schedule 2 or, where regulation 9(1A)(a) applies, in paragraph 7(1)(a) of Schedule 2;\n(vii) the student becomes a person described in paragraph 6B(1)(a)(ii) of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 81(2)(a) substituted (1.8.2018) by The Education (Student Support) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/813), regs. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(i) substituted (28.1.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Ordinary Residence) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/9), regs. 1(2), 44"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(ia) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/235), regs. 1(3)(a), 53"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(3)(b)(ia) inserted (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), 126(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(3)(b)(ia) substituted (9.8.2024) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/810), regs. 1(2), 25"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(ib) inserted (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), 126(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(ic) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/79), regs. 1(2), 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(3)(b)(ic) inserted (4.1.2024) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1349), regs. 1(2), 35 (with regs. 2, 80(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(id) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 3 of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Ukrainian Nationals and Family Members) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/764), regs. 2, 42"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(3)(b)(id) inserted (4.1.2024) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1349), regs. 1(2), 39 (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(ii) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/481), regs. 1(2), 126(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(iii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1302), regs. 1(3), 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(3)(b)(iii) substituted (3.2.2025 with application in accordance with reg. 2(1)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/16), regs. 1(2), 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(iv) 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), 126(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(3)(b)(iv) substituted (1.8.2021) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/813), regs. 1(2), 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(3)(b)(v) inserted (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), 126(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(vi) 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), 126(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Reg. 81(3)(b)(vii) inserted (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), 126(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/regulation/81",
    "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."
}