Higher Education and Research Act 2017

62Power to require information from unregistered providers

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(1)The OfS may by notice require the governing body of an unregistered provider to provide the OfS with such information for the purposes of the performance of the OfS’s functions as the OfS requests in the notice.

(2)A notice under subsection (1) may require the information to be provided—

(a)by a time specified in the notice, and

(b)in a form and manner specified in the notice.

(3)If a governing body fails to comply with a notice under subsection (1) and does not satisfy the OfS that it is unable to provide the information, the OfS may enforce the duty to comply with the notice in civil proceedings for an injunction.

(4)“An unregistered provider” is an English higher education provider which is not a registered higher education provider.

(5)See section 8(1)(b) for the ongoing registration condition of a registered higher education provider to provide information to the OfS.