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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/858",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifelong Learning (Student Support) (Amendment of Fees and Awards etc.) Regulations 2026",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In these Regulations, “study abroad”—\n(a) in relation to England, is one or more periods amounting to at least 13 weeks within a full-time course year—\n(i) which are spent studying abroad (meaning other than in the United Kingdom or the Islands) otherwise than as part of Turing mobility,\n(ii) which are undertaken in conjunction with a provider other than a provider in the United Kingdom or the Islands,\n(iii) which may comprise or include taught study,\n(iv) which do not include a work placement, and\n(v) which excludes study abroad—\n(aa) that occurs in a course year containing at least 10 weeks of study at the home institution, and\n(bb) that does not extend the overall duration of the course beyond its full-time equivalent, which must not exceed three years (except in the case of courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary studies, which may be of any duration);\n(b) in relation to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, is a course year of a full-time designated course provided in conjunction with an overseas institution that is not a Turing mobility—\n(i) in which the periods of taught study undertaken at the UK provider (meaning a provider located within the United Kingdom) during the course year were in aggregate less than 10 weeks, or\n(ii) in which the aggregate periods of attendance in relation to the course year undertaken and any previous course years undertaken as part of the course, which were not periods of taught study at the UK provider (disregarding any intervening vacations), exceeded 30 weeks.",
  "extent": "E+W",
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  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 1.9.2026, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:41:28.911901+00:00"
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