Regulation 3 Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

in the definition of “Erasmus year”—

after the definition of “long courses loan”, insert—

• ““non-regulated institution” means an institution in Wales that does not have a fee and access plan in force approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales under section 7 of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015^f1;”;

for the definition of “ordinary duration”, substitute—

• ““ordinary duration” means the number of academic years that a standard student would take to complete the course excluding any academic years of the course that are—

  1. (a)

     bursary years;

  2. (b)

     Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in Northern Ireland; or

  3. (c)

     Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in England, Scotland or Wales where the course began before 1st September 2012;

  4. (d)

     Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in Scotland where the course began on or after 1st September 2012 and where the Erasmus year begins before 1st August 2017;”;

after the definition of “refugee”, insert—

• ““regulated institution” means an institution that has a fee and access plan in force approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales under section 7 of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015;”;

in the definition of “standard academic year”—