{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/858",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifelong Learning (Student Support) (Amendment of Fees and Awards etc.) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Compelling personal reasons additional entitlement",
  "text": "(1) An eligible student (“A”) qualifies for compelling personal reasons additional entitlement—\n(a) where the Secretary of State determines that A is repeating or ceasing to attend, or that A repeated or ceased to attend, a course because of compelling personal reasons, and\n(b) if the credits that A is repeating or which A ceased to undertake—\n(i) were credits for which A received a fee loan under these Regulations, and\n(ii) were not funded by priority additional entitlement.\n(2) The amount of compelling personal reasons additional entitlement is the amount of fee loan that was received by A for the credits that were impacted by the compelling personal reasons.\n(3) Compelling personal reasons additional entitlement—\n(a) is to be added to A’s fee loan entitlement balance, as valued at the time when the circumstances giving rise to the compelling personal reasons take place, and\n(b) is available for A to use towards a designated course of A’s choice.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 28 in force at 1.9.2026, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/858",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifelong Learning (Student Support) (Amendment of Fees and Awards etc.) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/858/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:41:28.911901+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."
}