Statutory Instruments
2018 No. 1382
Education, England
The Higher Education (Transparency Condition and Financial Support) (England) Regulations 2018
Made
5th December 2018
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 2
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9(1)( 1 ), 39(3) and 119(5) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017( 2 ).
In accordance with section 119(2) of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Higher Education (Transparency Condition and Financial Support) (England) Regulations 2018.
2. These Regulations come into force as follows—
(a) regulations 1 to 4 come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made;
(b) regulation 5 comes into force on 1st January 2019.
3. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 .
Prescribed registered higher education provider: transparency condition
4. A higher education provider registered in either the ‘Approved’ or ‘Approved (fee cap)’ part of the register( 3 ) is prescribed for the purposes of section 9 of the Act.
Prescribed registered higher education provider: financial support
5. A higher education provider registered in the ‘Approved (fee cap)’ part of the register is prescribed as an eligible higher education provider for the purposes of section 39 of the Act.
Anne Milton
Minister of State
Department for Education
5th December 2018
See the definition of “prescribed” in section 9(4).
This is the register of English higher education providers that the Office for Students is required to establish and maintain under section 3(1) of the Act. Section 3(9) of the Act requires the Office for Students to make the information contained in the register publicly available.