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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-81",
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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/81",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Assessment of net income for current year",
  "text": "(1) Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that the net income of the eligible student’s dependent children for the financial year beginning immediately before the relevant year (“the current financial year”) is likely to be not more than 85% of the sterling value of their net income for the prior financial year, the Secretary of State may, for the purpose of enabling the eligible student to attend the course without hardship, use the dependent children’s net income for the current financial year for the purposes of the calculations in regulations 78 to 80.\n(2) In the event that paragraph (1) or this paragraph is applied in the previous course year of the current course and the Secretary of State is satisfied that the net income of the eligible student’s dependent children for the financial year beginning immediately before the relevant year is likely to be not more than 85% of the sterling value of their net income for the previous financial year, the Secretary of State may, for the purpose of enabling the eligible student to attend the course without hardship, use the dependent children’s net income for the current financial year for the purposes of the calculations in regulations 78 to 80.\n(3) In a course year immediately following one in which the Secretary of State has ascertained the eligible student’s dependent children’s net income for the current financial year under paragraph (1) and, where applicable, under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State must use the dependent children’s net income for the preceding financial year for the purposes of the calculations in regulations 78 to 80.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 81 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/81",
    "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."
}