Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
This Order may be cited as the Student Fees (Specification) (Scotland) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2006.
In this Order–
a “2006/07 academic year” is any academic year commencing during the period from 1st August 2006 until 31st July 2007 and subsequent academic years shall be construed accordingly;
a “deferred student” is a student, who is not an existing student, who has been accepted on to a course at a fundable body and has agreed in writing with that fundable body, before 1st August 2005, to defer entry to that course;
an “educational institution” is not limited to a fundable body and includes an institution offering higher education outside of Scotland;
an “existing student” is any student who has commenced a course, at an educational institution, prior to 1st August 2006 and is continuing to study that course;
a “higher level course of education” is any course at a higher level, including a honours or ordinary degree course and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree course or a Bachelor of Science degree course in medicine which is a preparatory course for the study of a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery course, with the exception of–
a course of post-graduate studies (including a higher degree course); and
a course at a higher level in preparation for a qualification from a professional body;
a “new student” is a student, who is not a deferred student or an existing student, who commences a course at a fundable body on or after 1st August 2006.