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The Repayment of Student Loans and Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans (Amendment) Regulations 2017

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Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 831

Education

The Repayment of Student Loans and Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made

8th August 2017

Laid before Parliament

11th August 2017

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

11th August 2017

Coming into force

5th September 2017

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22 and 42 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(1) and sections 5 and 6 of the Sale of Student Loans Act 2008(2).

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 22 and 42 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, now exercisable by them(3), and by sections 5 and 6 of the Sale of Student Loans Act 2008.

(1)

1998 c. 30. Section 22 was amended by: section 146(2) of, and Schedule 11 to, the Learning Skills Act 2000 (c. 21); paragraph 236 of Part 2 of Schedule 6 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1); section 147(3) of the Finance Act 2003 (c. 14); sections 42(1) and 43(2) and (3) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8); section 257(2) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22); section 76(1) and (2)(a) of the Education Act 2011 (c. 21); and S.I. 2013/1881. Section 43(1) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 defines “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(3)

The functions of the Secretary of State under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 as regards Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by section 44 of the Higher Education Act 2004, except for those functions under section 22(2)(a), (c), (j) and (k), (3)(e) and (f) and (5). Functions under subsections (2)(a), (c) and (k) are exercisable by the Secretary of State concurrently with the National Assembly for Wales. The section 22 functions which were transferred to, or became exercisable by, the National Assembly for Wales were subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). The functions of the Secretary of State under section 42 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 as regards Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions under section 42 which were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales were subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006.

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