{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-qualifying-persons-and-supplementary-provision-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-qualifying-persons-and-supplementary-provision-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-3B.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/3B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Prescribed description of a qualifying course",
  "text": "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": "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/3B",
    "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."
}