Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015

10 Limits 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.