{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/graduate-endowment-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/graduate-endowment-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/280",
  "legislation_title": "The Graduate Endowment (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/graduate-endowment-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Liable Graduates",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs and regulations 4 and 5, a graduate of the following description shall be liable to pay the graduate endowment under section 1(1) of the Act, namely a graduate who–\n(a) has undertaken a full-time course of higher education which commenced on or after 1st August 2001 which is the first full-time course of higher education undertaken by them;\n(b) has undertaken that course for a period of at least 3 academic years or, where that course is undertaken as part of a continuous programme of higher education, for a period of at least 2 academic years; and\n(c) is a person mentioned in paragraphs 2 to 7 of Schedule 1.\n(2) A graduate who has undertaken a full-time course of higher education which commenced on or after 1st August 2001 shall not be liable to pay the graduate endowment if that course is undertaken as part of a continuous programme of higher education which commenced prior to 1 August 2001.\n(3) This paragraph applies to graduates who have undertaken a full-time course of higher education who prior to the completion of that course–\n(a) transferred from one institution to another to undertake the same or any other full-time course of higher education;\n(b) ceased to undertake that course but transferred to another full-time course of higher education at the same institution; or\n(c) ceased to undertake that course but transferred to another course of higher education which is not a full-time course of higher education.\n(4) In the case of a graduate to whom paragraph (3) applies, for the purposes of paragraph (1)–\n(a) all of the full-time courses of higher education undertaken by them which follow on immediately from the preceding course (disregarding any intervening vacation) shall be treated as a single course of full-time higher education; and\n(b) the period taken into account for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) above shall be the entire period during which the graduate undertook the full-time courses of higher education referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/280/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:39.793155+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."
}