{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-42.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/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Students qualifying for a loan for living costs during a course year",
  "text": "(1) Where a protected category event—\n(a) occurs during a course year, and\n(b) results in a student becoming an eligible student,\nthe student may qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of that course year, but not in respect of a course year beginning before that course year.\n(2) Where—\n(a) a course designation event occurs during a course year and results in a student’s course becoming a designated course, or\n(b) an in-year qualifying event (other than a settled status event) occurs during a course year and results in a student becoming an eligible student,\nthe student may qualify for a loan for living costs, subject to paragraph (3).\n(3) A student referred to in paragraph (2)—\n(a) does not qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of any day of the course year before that event occurs, and\n(b) does not qualify for a loan for living costs in respect of a course year beginning before the course year in which the event occurred.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply where the protected category event, course designation event, or in-year qualifying event (as the case may be) occurs after the last day in the course year on which the student is undertaking study.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 42 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/42",
    "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."
}