{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-fee-limit-condition-england-regulations-2017/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1189",
  "legislation_title": "The Higher Education (Fee Limit Condition) (England) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-fee-limit-condition-england-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Qualifying course",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 10(6) of the Act, but subject to paragraph (2), a qualifying course is a higher education course which—\n(a) is designated for the purposes of section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 on the first day of an academic year which begins during the payment period; and\n(b) is provided by a higher education provider whose activities are wholly or principally carried on in England.\n(1ZA) In paragraph (1)(a), “designated” means designated by or under the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011\n(1A) Paragraph (2)(a) applies only where the first academic year (as defined in regulation 2(b)) of a course begins on or after 1st September 2019.\n(2) A course is not a qualifying course if\n(a) at the time the qualifying person received an offer of a place on that course the higher education provider was not within the ‘Approved (fee cap)’ part of the register ; or\n(b) the course is a full-time or part-time postgraduate course of initial teacher training undertaken in England and leading to qualified teacher status in England",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1ZA) inserted (1.9.2026) by The Lifelong Learning (Fee Limits) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/856), regs. 1(b), 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1A) inserted (25.7.2018) by The Higher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/903), regs. 1, 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1A) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(4)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/85), regs. 1, 61(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 7(2) renumbered as reg. 7(2)(a) (with application in accordance with reg. 2(4)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/85), regs. 1, 61(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 7(2)(b) and word inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 2(4)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/85), regs. 1, 61(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1998 c.30; section 22 was amended by the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c.21), section 146 and Schedule 11; the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c.1), Schedule 6; the Finance Act 2003 (c.14), section 147; the Higher Education Act 2004, sections 42 and 43 and Schedule 7, and the Education Act 2011 (c.21), section 76."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1189/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:05:31.830891+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."
}