{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/schedule/paragraph-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/schedule/paragraph-5A.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/306",
  "legislation_title": "The Further Education (Student Support) (Eligibility) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person with protected rights, or a frontier worker within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, who—\n(a) is—\n(i) an EEA migrant worker or an EEA self-employed person;\n(ii) a Swiss employed person or a Swiss self-employed person;\n(iii) a family member of a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii);\n(iv) an EEA frontier worker or an EEA frontier self-employed person;\n(v) a Swiss frontier employed person or a Swiss frontier self-employed person; or\n(vi) a family member of a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (iv) or (v);\n(b) subject to sub-paragraph (2), is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland on the first day of the first academic year of the course; and\n(c) has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, the European Economic Area and Switzerland throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.\n(2) Paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where the person applying for support falls within paragraph (a)(iv), (v) or (vi) of sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) In this paragraph, a description of a person in sub-paragraph(1)(a)(i) is to be read as if it includes a relevant person of Northern Ireland who would, if that person were an EEA national or solely an EEA national, be an EEA migrant worker or an EEA self-employed person.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iii) or (vi), an Irish citizen family member is not required to be living in the United Kingdom on IP completion day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. Pt. 2 para. 3G and heading substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Further Education (Student Support) (Eligibility) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/128), regs. 1(1), 4(a) (with reg. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. paras. 5A-5F inserted (1.8.2021) by The Further Education (Student Support) (Eligibility) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/202), regs. 1(1), 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/306/schedule/paragraph/5A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:28.569481+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."
}