3. This Part applies for the period which begins with 1st April 2018 and ends with 31st July 2019.
4.—(1) Sections 62(5), (6), (7), (7A) and (9) (and the heading to that section), 65(1) to (4) (and the heading to that section), 66 and 68(1) and (2) (and the heading to that section) of the 1992 Act continue to apply as if paragraphs 14(6) to (10) and 15 to 17 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced, but as if the reference to “matters within the responsibility of the Higher Education Funding Council for England” in section 62(6)(a) were a reference to “matters within the responsibility of the OfS and, where applicable, UKRI”.
(2) Pursuant to paragraph (1), any reference in the Education Acts to a higher education funding council in relation to such matters expressed to be matters within the responsibility of the Higher Education Funding Council for England are accordingly references to such matters within the responsibility of the OfS and, where applicable, UKRI.
(3) In this regulation, “the Education Acts” has the meaning given in section 578 of the Education Act 1996(1).
5. Section 69(1) and (2) of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 18(2) to (4) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
6. Section 70 of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 19 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
7. Section 79 of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 20 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
8. Section 79A of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 21 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced, but as if the reference to “The Higher Education Funding Council for England” were a reference to “The OfS”.
9. Section 81 of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 22 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
10. Section 82 of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 23 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
11. Section 83(1B) of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 24 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
12. Section 91(4) of the 1992 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 25 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced, but as if the reference to section 62(6) were a reference to that provision as it is to be read pursuant to regulation 4 of these Regulations.
13.—(1) Sections 22 to 30, 32 to 36, 38, 39 and 41 of, and Schedule 5 to, the 2004 Act are to continue to apply as if paragraph 30(2) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
(2) Section 31 of the 2004 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 30(2) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act (insofar as it applies to that section) had not been commenced, but as if references to “Director” (however expressed) in that section (and accordingly, throughout the 2004 Act) were references to “the OfS”.
14. Section 37 of the 2004 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 30(2) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act (insofar as it applies to that section) had not been commenced, but as if subsection (1)(a) of that section said—
“(a)impose specified financial requirements on the governing body under section 24(3) or direct the Secretary of State to do so;”.
15. Section 47(3)(a) and (c) and (4) of the 2004 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 30(3) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
16. In section 48 of the 2004 Act, the definition of “the 2005 Act” is to continue to apply as if paragraph 30(4) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
17. Section 92(5) of the 2005 Act is to continue to apply as if paragraph 31(2)(b) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
18. Paragraphs 26 to 35 of Schedule 14 to the 2005 Act are to continue to apply as if paragraph 31(3) of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced.
19. The following provisions of the 2011 Act continue to apply as if paragraph 33 of Schedule 11 to the 2017 Act had not been commenced—
(a)section 77;
(b)Schedule 5, paragraphs 18 to 29;
(c)Schedule 16, paragraph 22.
20. In the 2017 Act references to “registered higher education providers”(2) in—
(a)section 64(1)(a) and (8)(a);
(b)section 65(1), (7)(a) and (c), (8)(a) and (c), (9), (10)(a) and (b), (11)(a) and (14),
are to be read as references to “English higher education providers”(3).
For the meaning of “registered higher education provider” see sections 3(10) and 85(1) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.
For the meaning of “English higher education provider” see section 83(1) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.