{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-freedom-of-speech-act-2023-commencement-no-3-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/528",
  "legislation_title": "The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-freedom-of-speech-act-2023-commencement-no-3-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st August 2025",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 come into force on 1st August 2025—\n(a) section 1 (duties of registered higher education providers);\n(b) section 2 (duties of constituent institutions);\n(c) section 3 (duties of students’ unions) insofar as it inserts the definition of “students’ union” in a new section A5(6) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017;\n(d) section 5 (general functions);\n(e) section 11 (minor and consequential amendments) insofar as it relates to the provisions in paragraphs (f) to (h);\n(f) in Part 1 (Higher Education and Research Act 2017) of the Schedule (minor and consequential amendments)—\n(i) paragraph 1 insofar as it relates to the provisions brought into force by sub-paragraphs (ii) to (viii);\n(ii) paragraph 2(1) insofar as it relates to the provisions brought into force by sub-paragraphs (iii) and (iv);\n(iii) paragraph 2(2);\n(iv) paragraph 2(4);\n(v) paragraph 3;\n(vi) paragraph 4;\n(vii) paragraph 8;\n(viii) paragraph 10;\n(g) Part 2 (the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015) of the Schedule; and\n(h) in Part 3 (other Acts) of the Schedule, paragraph 18.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2017 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/528/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:16:39.155123+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."
}