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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-wales-act-2015-consequential-provision-order-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1353",
  "legislation_title": "The Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015 (Consequential Provision) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-wales-act-2015-consequential-provision-order-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes provision in consequence of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015.\nThat Act enables an institution in Wales which provides higher education and which is a charity to apply to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) for approval of a fee and access plan. Section 5 of the Act requires a fee and access plan to set a fee limit for certain courses and section 10 prevents an institution from charging fees in excess of those limits. HEFCW can take action to ensure compliance.\nThe effect of article 3 of this Order is that where such an institution provides a course in England, the provisions of the Act about fee limits apply to that course in the same way as they apply to courses provided by the institution in Wales.\nPart 3 of the Act requires HEFCW to assess the quality of education provided in Wales by or on behalf of a regulated institution (i.e. an institution in Wales with a fee and access plan) and enables HEFCW to take steps if satisfied that the quality of education is inadequate or likely to become inadequate.\nThe effect of article 4 of this Order is that where education in England is provided by or on behalf of a regulated institution, HEFCW’s functions in relation to the assessment of the quality of the education provided by the institution apply to that education in the same way as they apply to the education provided by that institution in Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1353/note",
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  },
  "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."
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