{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-specification-scotland-order-2011/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2011/455",
  "legislation_title": "The Student Fees (Specification) (Scotland) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/student-fees-specification-scotland-order-2011",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) “the 2006 Order” means the Student Fees (Specification) (Scotland) Order 2006;\n(b) a “2012/13 academic year” is any academic year commencing during the period beginning on 1st August 2012 and ending on 31st July 2013 and subsequent academic years are to be construed accordingly;\n(c) a “higher level course of education” is any course at a higher level, including a honours or ordinary degree course, with the exception of—\n(i) a course of post-graduate studies (including a higher degree course); and\n(ii) a course at a higher level in preparation for a qualification from a professional body;\n(d) a “post 2011/12 student” is a student, who is not a deferred student or a new deferred student within the meaning of article 1(2) of the 2006 Order, who commences a course at a post-16 education body on or after 1st August 2012.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(d) substituted (31.3.2015) by The Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (Modification of Legislation) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/153), art. 1, sch. para. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.8.2012, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2006/401."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/455/article/2",
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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."
}