{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-2ZC",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-2ZC.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/2ZC",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2ZC",
  "heading": "Category 2ZC – Protected Ukrainian nationals",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is a protected Ukrainian national,\n(b) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since becoming a protected Ukrainian national, and\n(c) is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.\n(1A) A person who—\n(a) is the spouse or civil partner of a protected Ukrainian national,\n(b) on the leave application date, was the spouse or civil partner of that person,\n(c) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since being granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, and\n(d) is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.\n(1B) A person who—\n(a) is—\n(i) the child of a protected Ukrainian national, or\n(ii) the child of the spouse or civil partner of a protected Ukrainian national,\n(b) on the leave application date was—\n(i) under 18 years old, and\n(ii) the child of a protected Ukrainian national or, as the case may be, the child of a person who was the spouse or civil partner of a protected Ukrainian national,\n(c) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since being granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, and\n(d) is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.\n(2) In this paragraph, “protected Ukrainian national” means a person who has extant leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom granted—\n(a) under any of the following provisions of Appendix Ukraine Scheme of the immigration rules—\n(i) paragraph UKR 9.1 (Ukraine Family Scheme);\n(ii) paragraph UKR 19.1 (Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme);\n(iii) paragraph UKR 27.1 (Ukraine Extension Scheme);\n(iv) paragraph UKR 36.1 (Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme), or\n(b) outside the immigration rules, where the person—\n(i) was residing in Ukraine immediately before 1 January 2022, and\n(ii) left Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion which took place on 24 February 2022.\n(3) In this paragraph “leave application date” means the date on which a person (“P”) made an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom that results in P becoming a person granted leave to enter or remain as a protected Ukrainian national.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2ZC 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, 43"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2ZC(1)(b) 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, 41(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2ZC(1A)(1B) inserted (4.1.2024) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1349), regs. 1(2), 40(a) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2ZC(2) substituted (17.7.2025) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/728), regs. 1(2), 8(a) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 2ZC(2) inserted (17.7.2025) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/728), regs. 1(2), 8(b) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2ZC(2)(a) 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, 41(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2ZC(3) inserted (4.1.2024) by The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1349), regs. 1(2), 40(b) (with reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/schedule/2/paragraph/2ZC",
    "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."
}