{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-fee-limits-regulations-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-21/enacted",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/856",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifelong Learning (Fee Limits) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-fee-limits-regulations-2026/enacted",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person—\n(a) who is—\n(i) settled in the United Kingdom,\n(ii) a family member of a person who is settled in the United Kingdom, where they (the family member) would be settled in the United Kingdom if they were ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, or\n(iii) a British citizen and who—\n(aa) was born in the British Indian Ocean Territory or, prior to 8th November 1965, in those islands designated as the British Indian Ocean Territory on that date, or\n(bb) is a direct descendant of a person who was born in the British Indian Ocean Territory or, prior to 8th November 1965, in those islands designated as the British Indian Ocean Territory on that date,\n(b) who is undertaking the course in the United Kingdom,\n(c) who has been ordinarily resident in the specified British overseas territories for at least part of the three-year period preceding the first day of the first course year of the course,\n(d) who has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the Islands and the specified British overseas territories throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first course year of the course, and\n(e) subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose ordinary residence in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the Islands and the specified British overseas territories has not during any part of the period referred to in paragraph (d) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(e) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the Islands and the specified British overseas territories in accordance with paragraph 1(4).\n(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (c) and (d) of sub-paragraph (1), a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iii) is treated as being ordinarily resident in the specified British overseas territories in any period before the first day of the first course year of the course in which they are not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or the Islands.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (1)(e) does not apply to a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iii).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 21 in force at 1.9.2026, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/856/schedule/1/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:57:14.241569+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."
}