{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-70.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/70",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Overseas study - amount of the grant for travel",
  "text": "(1) The amount of grant for travel payable under regulation 69 in respect of a course year is calculated as follows—\n( X - £ 303 ) + Y where—\n(a) X is the aggregate of the reasonable travel costs that the eligible student is obliged to incur in the course year for the purpose set out in regulation 69, and\n(b) Y is the aggregate of the expenditure incurred in the course year specified in paragraph (2),\nand is then reduced in accordance with paragraph (4).\n(2) The expenditure is—\n(a) expenditure that the eligible student reasonably incurs in insuring against liability for the cost of medical treatment provided outside the United Kingdom for any illness or bodily injury contracted or suffered during the period the student is attending the overseas institution, the Institute, or the overseas workplace,\n(b) the cost of a visa or visas that the eligible student is obliged to obtain in order to attend the overseas institution, the Institute, or the overseas workplace, and\n(c) medical costs that the eligible student reasonably incurs in order to fulfil a mandatory condition of entry into the territory, country or state in which the overseas institution, the Institute, or the overseas workplace is situated.\n(3) If the eligible student has reasonable travel costs and expenditure in relation to more than one course year that begins in the same service year, the calculation in paragraph (1) must be carried out in relation to the aggregate travel costs and expenditure for all those course years.\n(4) The result of the calculation in paragraph (1) is reduced by £1 for every complete £13.47 by which the student’s household income exceeds £45,000.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 70 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/70",
    "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."
}