{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-lifelong-learning-fee-limits-regulations-2026/regulation-17",
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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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Transfer cases",
  "text": "(1) This regulation makes provision in respect of transfer cases within the meaning of paragraph 1F(2) of Schedule 2 to the 2017 Act.\n(2) Where a student joins a course within the same month as a course year starts, no adjustment to the chargeable number of credits or the default number of credits is required.\n(3) Where a student joins a course at any point in the course year following the end of the month in which the course year starts—\n(a) the fee limit is to be based on an adjustment of the chargeable number of credits or of the default number of credits (as appropriate), with a reduction in the amount of learning that a student needs to undertake (“relieved learning”) to be based on the provider’s assessment of the reduction in the amount of learning that the student needs to undertake on account of previous learning undertaken by the student, and\n(b) the provider must take account of the relieved learning referred to in sub-paragraph (a) when notifying the Secretary of State under regulation 9(2)(a) of the number of credits for which the provider intends to charge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The effect of this regulation is to relieve a student of the need to undertake part of a course, because of activity undertaken by the student other than as part of that course."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348283327/regulation/17",
    "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."
}