The Further Education Loans (Amendment) Regulations 2017

• Citation: S.I. 2017/336
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Further Education Loans (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st April 2017.

Section 2 Amendment of the Further Education Loans Regulations 2012

The Further Education Loans Regulations 2012 (the “2012 Regulations”) are amended as follows.

Section 3 Amount of the fee loan

In regulation 16 (amount of the fee loan), after paragraph (3) insert—

(4) The amount of a fee loan in respect of a further education course beginning in the period beginning on 1st August 2017 and ending on 31st July 2018 must not exceed the lesser of—

(a) the maximum loan amount available in connection with that further education course determined in accordance with Schedule 3, or

(b) the amount which the institution is charging the eligible student for the further education course.

Section 4 Long residence category

In Part 2 of Schedule 1 (eligible student categories), for paragraph 13 (long residence) substitute—

(13)

(1) A person—

(a) who on the first day of a designated further education course has, preceding the first day of the further education course, lived in the United Kingdom throughout either—

(i) half their life; or

(ii) a period of twenty years;

(b) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom;

(c) who has been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the further education course; and

(d) subject to sub-paragraph (2), whose residence in the United Kingdom and Islands 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.

(2) Paragraph (d) of sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is treated as being ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands in accordance with paragraph 1(5).

Section 5 Insertion of Schedule 3

After Schedule 2, insert Schedule 3 which is set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Section 1 Exceptions to programme weightings in Table 4

The following programme weightings are exceptions to the programme weightings in the table—

(1) Waste management and recycling in sector subject area 1.4 Public Services is weighted at B – Low;

(2) Hair and beauty in sector subject area 7.3 Service enterprises is weighted at C – Medium;

(3) Music technology in sector subject area 9.1 Performing arts is weighted at D – High;

(4) Music practitioners in sector subject area 9.1 Performing arts is weighted at E – Specialist.