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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-and-support-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/584",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-fees-awards-and-support-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Regulations 3, 4, 5 and 7 apply to an academic year which begins on or after 1st August 2016.\n(2) Regulation 6 applies to a designated further education course which begins on or after 1st August 2016.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“academic year” means the period of twelve months beginning on 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September of the calendar year in which the academic year of the course in question begins according to whether that academic year begins on or after 1st January and before 1st April, on or after 1st April and before 1st July, on or after 1st July and before 1st August or on or after 1st August and on or before 31st December, respectively;\n“designated further education course” means a course designated by the Secretary of State under regulation 4 of the Further Education Loans Regulations 2012.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1818; amended by 2014/290, 2014/1766, 2015/181and 2016/238."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/584/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:27.490608+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."
}