{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-act-2004/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-act-2004/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/8",
  "legislation_title": "Higher Education Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-act-2004",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13);\n...\n“the 1998 Act” means the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30);\n...\n“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 48 repealed (1.9.2005) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), s. 125(3)(a), (b), Sch. 19 Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 48 omitted (1.4.2018) by virtue of Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 11 para. 30(4); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(s) (with transitional and savings provisions in S.I. 2018/245, regs. 2, 3, 13-16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/8/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:21.361210+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."
}