The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 473 (W. 117)

Education, Wales

The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022

Made

25 April 2022

Laid before Senedd Cymru

27 April 2022

Coming into force

25 May 2022

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State under sections 22(1)(a), 22(2)(a) and 42(6) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(1), and now exercisable by them(2), and powers conferred on them under sections 5(5)(b) and 55(2) of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015(3):

(1)

1998 c. 30. See section 43(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State in section 22(1)(a) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales, so far as they relate to making provision in relation to Wales by section 44 of the Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8). Section 44 of that Act also provided that the functions in section 22(2)(a) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 were to be exercised by the National Assembly for Wales concurrently with the Secretary of State, so far as they relate to making provision in relation to Wales. The Secretary of State’s function in section 42(6) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, in so far as being exercisable in relation to Wales, was transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, article 2 and Schedule 1 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(3)

2015 anaw 1. See section 57(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.