Explanatory note

Section 69(5) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 provides that the Welsh Ministers may, by order, confer or impose on the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales such supplementary functions relating to the provision of education as they think fit.

This Order confers supplementary functions on the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The functions conferred by this Order are functions exercisable by the Welsh Ministers in regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.

The functions conferred on the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales by article 2 of this Order relate to the payment of the new fee grant to institutions delivering higher education (and the recovery of overpayments of such grant) and requesting and receiving information connected to the payment of the new fee grant. These functions apply in respect of students starting designated higher education courses on or after 1 September 2014.