{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-approved-plans-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-approved-plans-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/884",
  "legislation_title": "The Student Fees (Approved Plans) (Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-approved-plans-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Approval of plans",
  "text": "The relevant authority must exercise its functions in accordance with the following procedure where the governing body of an institution applies to the relevant authority for approval of a proposed plan:–\n(a) the relevant authority must inform the governing body within a reasonable time whether the relevant authority approves the plan or whether it is minded not to approve the plan, giving reasons in the latter case;\n(b) where the relevant authority informs the governing body under paragraph (a) that it is minded not to approve the plan, it must inform the governing body that it may, within a reasonable time, do either or both of the following–\n(i) make representations to the relevant authority as to why the relevant authority should approve the plan, or\n(ii) modify the plan;\n(c) where the governing body acts in accordance with paragraph (b), the relevant authority must within a reasonable time consider the representations or modifications (or both) to the plan and, having considered them, inform the governing body whether or not it approves the plan;\n(d) where the governing body does not act in accordance with paragraph (b) within a reasonable time, the relevant authority must, within a further reasonable time, inform the governing body whether or not it approves the plan.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/884/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:50:58.965293+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."
}