{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/schedule/paragraph-6F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-student-support-eligibility-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/schedule/paragraph-6F.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/6F",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6F",
  "heading": "EU nationals ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands",
  "text": "(1) A person with protected rights who—\n(a) is an EU national on the first day of the first academic year of the course;\n(b) is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland on the first day of the first academic year of the course;\n(c) has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period immediately preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and\n(d) in a case where the person’s ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (c) was wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education, was ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, the European Economic Area and Switzerland immediately prior to the period of ordinary residence referred to in paragraph (c).\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, an Irish citizen 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. 6A-6F 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), 10(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/306/schedule/paragraph/6F",
    "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."
}