{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-supply-of-student-support-information-to-governing-bodies-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-supply-of-student-support-information-to-governing-bodies-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Supply of Student Support Information to Governing Bodies) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-supply-of-student-support-information-to-governing-bodies-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“2004 Act” means the Higher Education Act 2004;\n“applicant” means a person who makes a student support application;\n“applicant’s sponsor” means an applicant’s parent or partner or an applicant’s parent’s partner who is required under the student support scheme to provide information in connection with the applicant’s student support application;\n“governing body” means a person falling within section 45(2)(a) of the 2004 Act;\n“student support application” means an application for support payable under the student support scheme for an academic year commencing on or after 1st September 2006;\n“student support authority” means—\n(a) the Secretary of State;\n(b) any authority falling within section 45(7)(b) of the 2004 Act; and\n(c) any person falling within section 45(7)(c) of the 2004 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Student support scheme is defined in section 45(8) of the Higher Education Act 2004. The most recent regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 are the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/119)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/141/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:05.146345+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."
}