Regulation 4 Certification officers
The individual having responsibility for registering the enrolment of students to courses of education provided by an educational establishment which is a relevant educational establishment in England or Wales shall be the certification officer as regards that establishment.
A certification officer shall supply to a person who is pursuing or about to pursue a full-time course of education at the establishment as regards which he is the certification officer a certificate–
in the case of an establishment in England, in the form set out in Part I of the Schedule, or
in the case of an establishment in Wales, in the form set out in Part II of the Schedule,
stating the name of the establishment and the date on which the course begins and on which it will (or is expected to) cease.
A certificate shall be supplied within 21 days of the day on which the certification officer registers the enrolment of the person to the course of education, of the day on which the date that the course begins is determined or of the day on which these Regulations come into force, whichever is the later; and a fresh certificate shall be issued if the expected date of cessation stated in the certificate proves to be inaccurate within 21 days of the day on which the inaccuracy comes to the knowledge of the certification officer.
The failure to supply a certificate to a person in accordance with this regulation is actionable by the person concerned as a breach of statutory duty.