3 New award students—supplementary
1 For the purposes of these Regulations the maximum number of students which may be selected by a relevant institution as new award students for any academic year with a period of award of one, two or three academic years shall, subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), not exceed the number specified in relation to that institution in the second, third or fourth column (as the case may be) of the Table in Schedule 2.
2 Where for any academic year the number of students selected by a relevant institution as new award students with a period of award of three years is less than the institution’s maximum for that period of award the institution may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, select more new award students with periods of award of one or two years than their maximum, provided that the difference between the aggregate numbers of students selected with periods of award of one or two years and the aggregate of the institution’s maxima for those periods of award does not exceed the amount by which the number of pupils selected with a period of award of three years falls short of the institution’s maximum for that period of award.
3 Where for any academic year the number of students selected by a relevant institution as new award students with a period of award of two years is less than the institution’s maximum for that period of award the institution may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, select more new award students with a period of award of one year than their maximum, provided that the difference between the number of students selected with a period of award of one year and the institution’s maximum for that period of award does not exceed the amount by which the number of pupils selected with a period of award of two years falls short of the institution’s maximum for that period of award.
4 Where for any academic year the number of students selected by a relevant institution as new award students with a period of award of one, two or three academic years is less than the institution’s maximum for that period of award the Secretary of State may determine that another institution may select more than their maximum for that period of award such that the total number of new award students who can be selected in that academic year with a particular period of award does not exceed the total of all the relevant institutions' maxima for that period of award.
5 For the purposes of this regulation—
(a) an institution’s maximum for any particular period of award is the number specified in the second, third or fourth column of the Table in Schedule 2, as the case may be, and
(b) a student is selected “for” a particular academic year if he is selected for a course the first academic year of which is the academic year in question.
6 In this regulation references to a student “with” a particular period of award are references to a student in respect of whom that period of award has been specified.