Explanatory Notes

Graduate Endowment Abolition (Scotland) Act 2008

2008 asp 3

4 April 2008

The Act – Section by Section

Section 3: Saving of prior liabilities

11.Section 3 applies to those liable graduates whose due date is before 1 April 2008. This means liable graduates whose due date was 1 April 2005, 2006 and 2007. Subsection (2) means that section 1 of the 2001 Act and the principal regulations are kept in force for the purpose of on-going collection of the GE from this category of person (whose GE liability is not being extinguished by the Act).