{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-qualifying-persons-and-supplementary-provision-wales-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2016/276",
  "legislation_title": "The Higher Education (Qualifying Courses, Qualifying Persons and Supplementary Provision) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-qualifying-persons-and-supplementary-provision-wales-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to the 2015 Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 3 substitute—\n“Prescribed description of a qualifying course\n3. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a qualifying course in relation to a 2004 Act plan for the purposes of the transitional period is:\n(a) a course of higher education;\n(b) designated for the purposes of section 22 of the 1998 Act on the first day of an academic year which begins on or after 1 September 2012; and\n(c) provided by an institution in Wales.\n(2) A course is not a qualifying course if at the time the qualifying person received an offer of a place on that course the institution providing it was not publicly-funded.\n3A. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a qualifying course for the purpose of a fee and access plan which is not a 2004 Act plan is a course of higher education capable of being designated by regulations made under section 22 of the 1998 Act (regardless of whether the institution providing the course is publicly-funded).\n(2) Where a course is provided by a person on behalf of an institution, that course is not a qualifying course if that person is not a charity.\n3B. For the purposes of regulations 3 and 3A, a course is not a qualifying course if:\n(a) the first academic year of the course began before 1 September 2012;\n(b) it is an end-on course and the preceding course was not a qualifying course by reason of paragraph (a); or\n(c) it is a part-time course.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/276/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:41.551787+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."
}