{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-loans-regulations-2012/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-loans-regulations-2012/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1818",
  "legislation_title": "The Further Education Loans Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-loans-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Period of eligibility",
  "text": "(1) A student’s status as an eligible student is retained in connection with a designated further education course until the status terminates in accordance with this regulation or regulation 3.\n(2) The period for which an eligible student retains that status is the “period of eligibility”.\n(3) Subject to the following paragraphs the maximum periods of eligibility are determined by the type of further education course and are as follows—\n(a) two years for AS Levels;\n(b) two years for A Levels;\n(c) two years for an Access to HE Diploma; and\n(d) three years for any other type of course.\n(4) The period of eligibility terminates when the eligible student (“A”)—\n(a) withdraws from A’s further education course in circumstances where the Secretary of State has not transferred or will not transfer A’s status as an eligible student under regulation 8,or\n(b) abandons or is expelled from A’s further education course.\n(5) The Secretary of State may terminate the period of eligibility where A has shown by A’s conduct that A is unfitted to receive a fee loan.\n(6) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that an eligible student has failed to comply with any requirement to provide information under these Regulations or has provided information which is inaccurate in a material particular, the Secretary of State may take such of the following actions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in the circumstances—\n(a) terminate the period of eligibility;\n(b) determine that the student no longer qualifies for any fee loan or particular amount of fee loan;\n(c) treat any fee loan paid to the student as an overpayment which may be recovered under regulation 24.\n(7) Where the period of eligibility terminates before the student completes the further education course, the Secretary of State may, at any time, renew the period of eligibility for such period as the Secretary of State determines.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1) inserted (1.3.2021) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/127), regs. 1(1), 48"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3) substituted (1.4.2016) by The Further Education Loans (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/238), regs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.9.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1818/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:25:44.948408+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."
}