{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-lifelong-learning-fee-limits-regulations-2026/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348283327",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifelong Learning (Fee Limits) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-lifelong-learning-fee-limits-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Default number of credits",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraphs 1C, 1E and 1F of Schedule 2 to the 2017 Act, this regulation makes provision regarding the default number of credits in respect of a course year where credits are not attached.\n(2) In this regulation (but see regulation 9(4))—\n(a) paragraphs (3) and (4) make provision in relation to activities other than repeat study;\n(b) paragraph (5) makes provision in relation to repeat study;\n(c) paragraph (6) makes provision in relation to all activities.\n(3) For a course year that does not include credit-differentiated activity, the default number of credits is the lower of—\n(a) the per-year amount, or\n(b) the per-course amount for the activity less the number of credits from the per-course amount for the activity that were charged for in previous years of the course.\n(4) For a course year that includes credit-differentiated activity, in respect of each credit-differentiated activity, the default number of credits is the lower of—\n(a) the per-course amount for the activity less the number of credits from that per-course amount charged for in previous years of the course, or\n(b) the number of duration credits for the credit-differentiated activity.\n(5) The default number of credits for repeat study is—\n(a) where a course year is comprised only of repeat study, the same number of credits as the per-year amount, or\n(b) where repeat study is a credit-differentiated activity undertaken during a course year, the per-year amount less the sum of the default numbers for all other credit-differentiated activities within the course year.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph 1C(4)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 2017 Act—\n(a) the default number of credits for the course year is set at the same number of credits as the per-year amount, and\n(b) in the event that the sum of the default numbers for all credit-differentiated activities adds up to more than the default number of credits for the course year, the provider is to decide which credits to charge for so that the default number of credits for the course year is not exceeded.\n(7) In this regulation “duration credits” are a measurement of learning time whereby one week of full-time equivalent study (or 40 notional learning hours) is equivalent to 4 duration credits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348283327/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:24.903340+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."
}