4.—(1) Regulations 5 and 7 apply in relation to England only.
(2) Regulation 6 applies in relation to English higher education providers(1).
(3) Subject to the savings in Part 5 of the Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023(2) (as amended by regulation 7)—
(a)regulation 5(3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) and regulation 6 apply only in relation to the provision of support, and to fees and awards applicable, in relation to a new academic year, whether anything done under the 2011 Regulations as amended by these Regulations is done before, on or after 1st August 2023;
(b)regulation 5(2)(a)(i) applies only in relation to the provision of support in relation to—
(i)a new course, or
(ii)a new academic year of an existing course,
whether anything done under the 2011 Regulations as amended by these Regulations is done before, on or after 1st August 2023;
(c)regulation 5(2)(b) applies only in relation to the provision of support in relation to a new course, whether anything done under the 2011 Regulations as amended by these Regulations is done before, on or after 1st August 2023.
(4) In this regulation—
“existing course” means a course which begins—
on or after 1st August 2022, and
on or before 31st July 2023;
“new academic year” means an academic year which begins on or after 1st August 2023;
“new course” means a course which begins on or after 1st August 2023.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, an “academic year” is the period of twelve months beginning with 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September of the calendar year in which the academic year of the course in question begins, according to whether the academic year of the course in question begins—
(a)on or after 1st January and before 1st April,
(b)on or after 1st April and before 1st July,
(c)on or after 1st July and before 1st August, or
(d)on or after 1st August and on or before 31st December.
(6) In this regulation and regulation 5, “the 2011 Regulations” means the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011(3).
See the definition of “English higher education provider” in section 83(1) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.