(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make the following transitory provision in respect of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29) (“the Act”).
The transitory provision in regulation 2 allows the Office for Students to prepare and publish a regulatory framework under section 75 of the Act, even though the general ongoing registration conditions may not yet have been determined and published under section 5 of the Act.
The transitory provision in regulation 3 ensures that a body may be designated under Schedule 4 and Schedule 6 to the Act during the transitional period, even though there may be not be any registered higher education providers who can be consulted or considered for the purposes of that designation, in accordance with those Schedules, until the end of that period.
A full impact assessment on the effect the higher education reforms will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector was published on 7 June 2016 alongside the Higher Education and Research Bill.
That impact assessment is available from www.gov.uk/government/collections/higher-education-and-research-bill.