PART 2FEE AND ACCESS PLANS

Compliance with fee limit

10Limits on student fees

1

The governing body of an institution within subsection (2) must ensure that regulated course fees do not exceed the applicable fee limit.

2

An institution is within this subsection if a fee and access plan relating to it has been approved under section 7 (whether or not that plan is still in force).

3

“Regulated course fees” are fees payable to the institution by a qualifying person—

a

in connection with the person’s undertaking a qualifying course, and

b

in respect of an academic year applicable to that course, where that year begins at a time within the period specified under section 4 in the institution’s most recent fee and access plan (whether or not the plan is still in force).

4

The institution’s most recent fee and access plan is the fee and access plan most recently approved under section 7 in relation to the institution.

5

The applicable fee limit is—

a

in a case where the institution’s most recent fee and access plan specifies a fee limit for the course and year in question, that limit;

b

in a case where the institution’s most recent fee and access plan provides for the determination of a fee limit for the course and year in question, that limit as determined in accordance with the plan.