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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/858",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifelong Learning (Student Support) (Amendment of Fees and Awards etc.) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifelong-learning-student-support-amendment-of-fees-and-awards-etc-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Designation - exceptions",
  "text": "(1) A course is not a designated course if any of the following apply—\n(a) in the case of a postgraduate pre-registration course—\n(i) it is a distance learning course, or\n(ii) it is less than two course years long;\n(b) in the case of a course falling within paragraph 6 or 7 of Schedule 4—\n(i) the governing body of a maintained school or of an Academy has arranged for the provision of the course to a pupil of the school or Academy respectively, or\n(ii) the course is less than one year long;\n(c) the course is taken as part of an employment-based teacher training scheme;\n(d) in the case of a first degree course (other than a graduate entry accelerated programme or a graduate entry veterinary course)—\n(i) it leads to the award of a professional qualification, and\n(ii) a first degree (or equivalent qualification) would normally be required for entry to a course leading to the award of that professional qualification;\n(e) it is a UK dual degree programme;\n(f) its designation has been revoked or suspended under regulation 10(8) or 11(6).\n(2) In paragraph (1)(b)(i)—\n(a) “Academy” means a school to which Academy arrangements under section 1 of the Academies Act 2010 relate;\n(b) “maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school, a community or foundation special school or a maintained nursery school.\n(3) In paragraph (1)(e), “UK dual degree programme” means a single course of study offered by an institution in the United Kingdom leading to the award by that institution of two first degrees, other than a full-time course leading to a qualification as a—\n(a) medical doctor,\n(b) dentist,\n(c) veterinary surgeon,\n(d) architect,\n(e) landscape architect,\n(f) landscape designer,\n(g) landscape manager,\n(h) town planner, or\n(i) town and country planner.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 1.9.2026, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 c. 32."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/858",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifelong Learning (Student Support) (Amendment of Fees and Awards etc.) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/858/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:41:28.911901+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."
}