{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-and-qualifying-persons-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-and-qualifying-persons-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Higher Education (Qualifying Courses and Qualifying Persons) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-and-qualifying-persons-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;\n“the 2022 Act” (“Deddf 2022”) means the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022;\n“academic year” (“blwyddyn academaidd”), in respect of a course, means a year determined as follows—\n(a) identify the period in Column 2 of the Table within which the academic year actually begins;\n(b) the academic year is the period of 12 months beginning on the date specified in the entry in Column 1 of the Table corresponding to the period set out in Column 2.\nTable\nColumn 1\nStart date of academic year for the purposes of these Regulations\nColumn 2\nPeriod within which academic year begins\n1 September\nOn or after 1 August but before 1 January\n1 January\nOn or after 1 January but before 1 April\n1 April\nOn or after 1 April but before 1 July\n1 July\nOn or after 1 July but before 1 August\n“course of initial teacher training” (“cwrs hyfforddiant cychwynnol athrawon”) includes such a course leading to a first degree.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2026, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/52/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:30.402139+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."
}