The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

This Statutory Instrument, in part, corrects errors in the Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/127), the Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1348) and the Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/74) and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.

Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 85

Education, England

The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Made

23rd January 2024

Laid before Parliament

25th January 2024

Coming into force

15th February 2024

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 4(2) of, and paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Education Act 1962(1) and by section 3(1) and (2) of the Education Act 1973(2), sections 1 and 2 of the Education (Fees and Awards) Act 1983(3), sections 22 and 42(6) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(4) and sections 10(4)(b) and (6) and 119(5) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017(5).

(1)

1962 c. 12. The relevant provisions, as amended, are set out in Schedule 5 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20); section 1(3)(d) was amended by section 4 of the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984 (c. 11); the entire Act was repealed by section 44(2) of and Schedule 4 to the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30), subject to the transitional and saving provisions set out in article 3 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3237 (C. 81)).

(2)

1973 c. 16; section 3 was repealed by section 44(2) of and Schedule 4 to the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c.30), subject to the transitional and saving provisions set out in the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3237).

(3)

1983 c. 40. Section 1 was amended by paragraph 91 of Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), paragraph 19 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), paragraph 8 of Schedule 9 to the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 (c. 37), paragraph 57 of Schedule 37 to the Education Act 1996 (c. 56), paragraph 9 of Schedule 11 to the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21) (“the 2000 Act”), paragraph 5 of Schedule 21 to the Education Act 2002 (c. 32), paragraph 9 of Schedule 14 to the Education Act 2005 (c. 18), paragraph 5 of Schedule 5, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 16, to the Education Act 2011 (c. 21) (“the 2011 Act”), paragraph 33 of Schedule 14 to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20) and S.I. 2005/3238 (W. 243), 2010/1158 and 2010/1080. Section 2 was amended by Schedule 4 to the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30). The functions of the Secretary of State under section 1, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 2006/1458 with effect from 8th June 2006. The Secretary of State’s functions under the other provisions of the Act were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672 with effect from 1st July 1999.

(4)

1998 c. 30. Section 22 was amended by section 146(2)(a) of, and Schedule 11 to, the 2000 Act, paragraph 236 of Schedule 6 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), section 147 of the Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), sections 42 and 43 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8) (“the 2004 Act”), section 257 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), section 76 of the 2011 Act and section 88 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29) and by S.I. 2013/1881. There are amendments to section 42 but none is relevant to these Regulations. See section 43(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 in relation to Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales (except so far as they authorised the making of any provision authorised by subsection (2)(a), (c), (j), (k), (3)(e) or (f) or (5) of that section) by section 44(1) of the 2004 Act.

(5)

2017 c. 29. See section 10(9) for the definition of “prescribed”.