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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-amendment-regulations-2026",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1986) (“the 2011 Regulations”).\nPart 2 amends the 2011 Regulations to insert a new Part 2A, which limits the automatic designation of courses offered by unregistered providers on behalf of registered providers. Under the new Part 2A, for a course to be designated it must be taught or delivered by a registered provider or an unregistered provider with less than 300 students, or which is a specified state-funded or public body (a “qualifying franchised provider”). Part 2A additionally sets out how the Secretary of State will calculate the student population, notify providers, and revoke designation in the following academic year if the provider’s student population exceeds the threshold of less than 300 students. Part 2A also contains provision enabling providers to appeal a notice provided by the Secretary of State under this Part.\nPart 3 enables the Secretary of State to treat providers which have applied for registration with the Office for Students before 1st July 2026 and are awaiting a registration decision on 1st September 2027 as if they are a qualifying franchised provider, for the purposes of courses commencing during the academic year beginning with 1st September 2028. It also contains transitional provision for appealing a notice issued by the Secretary of State under new Part 2A, where a provider’s student population is less than 300 students in the academic year before that notice is issued.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector has been produced and is published alongside these Regulations on www.legislation.gov.uk. Hard copies are available from the Department for Education, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/459/note",
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  "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."
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