{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teacher-student-loans-repayment-etc-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teacher-student-loans-repayment-etc-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1917",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Teacher Student Loans) (Repayment etc.) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teacher-student-loans-repayment-etc-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Eligibility",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall be eligible for the reduction of amounts payable in respect of loans if he—\n(a) is in eligible employment;\n(b) is a person mentioned in regulation 5; and\n(c) has an outstanding loan made pursuant to any regulations made under section 22 of the 1998 Act.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall be eligible for the repayment of amounts payable in respect of loans if he—\n(a) is in eligible employment;\n(b) is a person mentioned in regulation 5; and\n(c) has either:\n(i) an outstanding mortgage style loan;\n(ii) an outstanding loan made pursuant to any regulations made under section 73 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980; or\n(iii) an outstanding loan made pursuant to the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.\n(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), the Secretary of State may determine that a person is not eligible for the repayment or reduction of amounts in respect of loans if he—\n(a) is in breach of any obligation contained in any agreement for a student loan or in any regulations or order under which a loan mentioned in paragraph (2) is made;\n(b) has outstanding charges or penalties in relation to such a loan pursuant to any such agreement, regulation or order; or\n(c) has, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, shown himself by his conduct to be unfitted to be so eligible.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 44; section 73 was amended by section 29 of the 1998 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I.14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1917/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:14:25.775193+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."
}