{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-qualifying-courses-and-persons-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule/paragraph-9ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-qualifying-courses-and-persons-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule/paragraph-9ZA.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/9ZA",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9ZA",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person with protected rights—\n(a) who is —\n(i) an EU national on the first day of the first academic year of the course;\n(ii) a family member of a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i); or\n(iii) a family member of a relevant person of Northern Ireland;\n(b) who is undertaking the course in Northern Ireland;\n(c) who, subject to sub-paragraph (2), has been ordinarily resident in the territory comprising the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the overseas territories (relevant territory) throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course; and\n(d) subject to sub-paragraph (3), whose ordinary residence in the relevant territory has not during any part of the period referred to in paragraph (c) been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.\n(2) Paragraph (c) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a family member of a person who—\n(a) is an EU national or a relevant person of Northern Ireland; and\n(b) has been ordinarily resident in the relevant territory throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course.\n(3) Paragraph (d) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the relevant territory in accordance with paragraph 1(3).\n(4) For the purposes of this paragraph, an Irish citizen is not required to be living in the United Kingdom on IP completion day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 paras. 9ZA-9ZD inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending Rule) by The Education (Student Fees and Support) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/85), regs. 1(1), 16(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 9ZA(4) inserted (24.3.2022) by The Education (Student Support, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/75), regs. 1(2), 61(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/328/schedule/paragraph/9ZA",
    "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."
}