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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teaching-and-higher-education-act-1998-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1998/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2004",
  "legislation_title": "The Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1998",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transitional and saving provisions",
  "text": "If, with the agreement of the institution or institutions in question, a student withdraws from attending a course referred to in any of paragraphs (c) to (h) of article 4 without completing it, and (disregarding any intervening vacation) immediately commences attending another course which is provided by the same or a different institution, the date on which the first year of the first course began shall be regarded for the purposes of the relevant paragraph as the date on which the first year of the second or further course began.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2004/article/5",
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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."
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