{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-58",
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  "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/58",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "General qualifying conditions for supplementary grants",
  "text": "(1) An eligible student qualifies for a supplementary grant in relation to a course year of a designated course if—\n(a) the student is not excluded from qualification by paragraph (2), (3) or (4),\n(b) the course year meets the credit threshold requirement for the particular supplementary grant for which they are applying, and\n(c) the student satisfies the qualifying conditions for the particular supplementary grant for which they are applying.\n(2) An eligible student does not qualify for a supplementary grant in respect of a distance learning course, other than the disabled students’ allowance, unless they are treated as being in attendance on that course by virtue of regulation 59.\n(3) An eligible student does not qualify for a supplementary grant—\n(a) if the only paragraph or paragraphs of Schedule 2 into which the student falls is one or more of paragraphs 3, 4(1)(d)(ii), 12(1)(c)(ii), 13(1)(b)(ii), 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22(c)(ii) and 23(d)(ii),\n(b) if the student is a prisoner,\n(c) if the student is studying the course as part of an apprenticeship,\n(d) in respect of a course year which is a bursary year, or\n(e) if the student is eligible to apply for a non-income assessed healthcare bursary.\n(4) Subject to regulation 61(7), an eligible student does not qualify for a supplementary grant in respect of a course year—\n(a) that contains a sandwich placement, and\n(b) where the periods of study are in aggregate less than 10 weeks,\nunless the placement constitutes unpaid service.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a course year of a designated course meets the credit threshold requirement for a supplementary grant if the course year has attached to it at least the threshold number of credits specified in relation to that grant in regulation 61(2), 65(2), 75(2), 76(2) or 77(2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 58 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/58",
    "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."
}