1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (Supplementary Functions) Order 2011 and it comes into force on 19 April 2011.
(2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.
(3) In this Order—
(a)“the 2011 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2011”) means the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2011(1); and
(b)“new fee grant” (“grant ffioedd newydd”) has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the 2011 Regulations.
2. The following functions, being functions of the Welsh Ministers under the 2011 Regulations(2), are conferred on the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales(3)—
(a)functions relating to the payment of new fee grant under regulation 65 of the 2011 Regulations;
(b)functions relating to the recovery of an overpayment of new fee grant under regulation 70 of the 2011 Regulations; and
(c)functions relating to a request for and receipt of information under Schedule 3 to the 2011 Regulations, in so far as those functions relate to the payment or recovery of a new fee grant.
3. Nothing in this Order prevents the Welsh Ministers from exercising the functions described in article 2.
Leighton Andrews
Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning, one of the Welsh Ministers
28 March 2011