# The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017, Regulation 3: Amendment of the Education (Student Support) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009


In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation)—
(a) in the definition of “Erasmus year”—
(i) in sub-paragraph (b), omit “or Scotland”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for “or Wales”, substitute “, Scotland or Wales”;
(b) 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;”;
(c) 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—
(a) bursary years;
(b) Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in Northern Ireland; or
(c) Erasmus years of a course provided by an institution in England, Scotland or Wales where the course began before 1st September 2012;
(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;”;
(d) 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;”;
(e) in the definition of “standard academic year”—
(i) in sub-paragraph (b), omit “or Scotland”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), for “or Wales”, substitute “, Scotland or Wales”;
(iii) after sub-paragraph (c), insert—
“(d) an Erasmus year 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;”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/43/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-no2-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-3
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