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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teacher-student-loans-repayment-etc-regulations-2002/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teacher-student-loans-repayment-etc-regulations-2002/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2086",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Teacher Student Loans) (Repayment etc.) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teacher-student-loans-repayment-etc-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Definition of loans",
  "text": "(1) A student loan is a mortgage style loan or an income contingent loan.\n(2) A mortgage style loan is a loan towards a student’s maintenance, including the interest accrued on the loan, made pursuant to arrangements made under—\n(a) section 1 of the 1990 Act, or\n(b) the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990.\n(3) An income-contingent loan is a loan towards a student’s maintenance, including the interest accrued on the loan, made pursuant to any regulations made under—\n(a) section 22 of the 1998 Act,\n(b) section 73 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, or\n(c) the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1506 (N.I. 11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2086/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:50:51.768311+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."
}