{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1760",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The 1954 c. 33 (N.I.). Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1986 Order” means the 1986 NI 3. Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;\n“the Further Education Order” means the 1997 NI 15. Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n“fees”, in relation to undertaking a course, means fees in respect of, or otherwise in connection with, undertaking the course, including admission, registration, tuition and graduation fees but excluding—\n(a)fees payable to an institution for awarding or accrediting any qualification where the institution does not provide the whole or part of the course and is not a publicly-funded institution;\n(b)fees payable for board or lodging;\n(c)fees payable for field trips (including any tuition element of such fees);\n(d)fees payable for attending any graduation or other ceremony; and\n(e)such other fees as may be prescribed;\n“further education course” and “higher education course” have the meaning given by regulations under Article 3;\n“modifications” includes additions, alterations and omissions;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Regulations under Article 3 may provide for courses provided wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom to be further education courses or (as the case may be) higher education courses for the purposes of this Order.\n(4) This Order shall be construed as one with the 1986 Order; and accordingly Article 2 of the 1986 Order, in so far as it relates to the interpretation of words or expressions used in that Order and in this Order, shall apply for the purposes of this Order as it applies for the purposes of that Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2000 c. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 2(2): definition of \"publicly funded institution\" repealed (13.2.2006) by Higher Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1116 (N.I. 5)), arts. 1(3), 15, Sch.; S.R. 2006/30, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1760/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:55.624109+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."
}