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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-student-fees-specification-scotland-order-2006/article-1",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2006/0110704797",
  "legislation_title": "The Student Fees (Specification) (Scotland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-student-fees-specification-scotland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Student Fees (Specification) (Scotland) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2006.\n(2) In this Order–\n(a) 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;\n(b) 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;\n(c) an “educational institution” is not limited to a fundable body and includes an institution offering higher education outside of Scotland;\n(d) 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;\n(e) 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–\n(i) a course of post-graduate studies (including a higher degree course); and\n(ii) a course at a higher level in preparation for a qualification from a professional body;\n(f) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2006/0110704797/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:24.643479+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."
}