{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-qualifying-courses-and-persons-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-qualifying-courses-and-persons-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/328",
  "legislation_title": "The Student Fees (Qualifying Courses and Persons) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-qualifying-courses-and-persons-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Refugees and their family members",
  "text": "(1) A person—\n(a) who is a refugee;\n(b) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since he was recognised as a refugee; and\n(c) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the course start date.\n(2) A person—\n(a) who is the spouse or civil partner of a refugee;\n(b) who was the spouse or civil partner of the refugee on the date on which the refugee made his application for asylum;\n(c) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since he was given leave to remain in the United Kingdom; and\n(d) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the course start date.\n(3) A person—\n(a) who is the child of a refugee or the child of the spouse or civil partner of a refugee;\n(b) who, on the date on which the refugee made his application for asylum, was the child of the refugee or the child of a person who was the spouse or civil partner of the refugee on that date;\n(c) who was under 18 on the date on which the refugee made his application for asylum;\n(d) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since he was given leave to remain in the United Kingdom; and\n(e) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the course start date.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(1)(c) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/19), regs. 1(2), 34(b)(i) (as amended (14.8.2024) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/157), regs. 1(2), 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(2)(d) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/19), regs. 1(2), 34(b)(ii) (as amended (14.8.2024) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/157), regs. 1(2), 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(3)(e) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/19), regs. 1(2), 34(b)(iii) (as amended (14.8.2024) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/157), regs. 1(2), 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4 in operation at 1.9.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/328/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:40:00.939016+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."
}