{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-student-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-student-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2023/98",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture (Student Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-student-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2023",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Part-time higher education course",
  "text": "(1) A “part-time higher education course” means a higher education course which meets the following conditions—\n(a) it is of at least one academic year’s duration;\n(b) it is ordinarily possible to complete the higher education course in not more than four times the period ordinarily required to complete the full-time equivalent; and\n(c) the intensity of study in one academic year is less than or equal to 75%.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) “period ordinarily required to complete the full-time equivalent” means the period in which a standard full-time student would complete the full-time equivalent or a full-time higher education course at the same FHEQ level where no full-time equivalent exists.\n(b) “standard full-time student” is a student who is to be taken—\n(i) to have begun the full-time equivalent on the same date as the part-time student began the part-time higher education course in question;\n(ii) not to have been excused any part of the full-time equivalent;\n(iii) not to have repeated any part of the full-time equivalent; and\n(iv) not to be absent from the full-time equivalent other than during vacations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 1.9.2023, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2023/98/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:31:30.014963+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."
}