[F1Prescribed description of a qualifying courseE+W

3.(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a qualifying course in relation to a 2004 Act plan for the purposes of the transitional period is:

(a)a course of higher education;

(b)designated for the purposes of section 22 of the 1998 Act on the first day of an academic year which begins on or after 1 September 2012; and

(c)provided by an institution in Wales.

(2) A course is not a qualifying course if at the time the qualifying person received an offer of a place on that course the institution providing it was not publicly-funded.]