{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-qualifying-persons-and-supplementary-provision-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-qualifying-persons-and-supplementary-provision-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1484",
  "legislation_title": "The Higher Education (Qualifying Courses, Qualifying Persons and Supplementary Provision) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-qualifying-persons-and-supplementary-provision-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed description of a qualifying course",
  "text": "(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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 3-3B substituted for reg. 3 (26.3.2016) by The Higher Education (Qualifying Courses, Qualifying Persons and Supplementary Provision) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/276), regs. 1(1), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1484/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:51.472693+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."
}