{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-support-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-support-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-29.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2022/157",
  "legislation_title": "The Student Support (Scotland) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-support-scotland-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Exercise of power to grant an education maintenance allowance",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may pay an education maintenance allowance in accordance with section 73(f) (power of Secretary of State to make grants to education authorities and others) of the Act and this Part to or in respect of any person undertaking a course of education in the United Kingdom and Islands who—\n(a) is deemed to have attained the age of 16 years under section 33 (school leaving dates),of the Act,\n(b) has not, on the relevant date, attained the age of 20 years, and\n(c) is described in one or more paragraphs of Part 1 of schedule 1.\n(2) Schedule 3 is to have effect as regards determining whether a person is to be treated, for the purposes of schedule 1 as being, or having been, ordinarily resident in a place at or for a particular time.\n(3) In this Part—\n(a) “course of education” means a ...—\n(i) course of school education,\n(ii) course of non-advanced education undertaken at a home within an area of an education authority and approved by that education authority, or\n(iii) course of non-advanced education undertaken elsewhere within an area of an education authority under the supervision of that education authority, or,\n(iv) course of non-advanced education undertaken at a college of further education,\n(b) “course of non-advanced education” means any course which prepares a person to a standard not higher than that required for—\n(i) a qualification awarded by Qualifications Scotland, or\n(ii) a General Certificate of Education qualification of England and Wales or Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29(1) inserted (1.8.2023) by The Education (Fees and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/142), regs. 1, 3(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29(1)(c) inserted (1.8.2023) by The Education (Fees and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/362), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29(3)(a) omitted (1.8.2023) by virtue of The Education (Fees and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/142), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 29(3)(a)(iv) and word inserted (1.8.2023) by The Education (Fees and Student Support) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/142), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29(3)(b)(i) substituted (1.2.2026) by The Education (Scotland) Act 2025 (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/385), reg. 1, sch. para. 9(2); S.S.I. 2026/2, reg. 2(2)(3), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 29 in force at 1.8.2022, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2022/157/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:50:04.970661+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."
}