Higher Education and Research Act 2017

123 Extent

(1) Subject to the rest of this section, this Act extends to England and Wales only.

(2) The following provisions also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland—

(a) section 25 (rating the quality of, and the standards applied to, higher education);

(b) sections 79 and 80 (powers to obtain and use application-to-acceptance information);

(c) section 83 (meaning of “English higher education provider” etc);

(d) Part 3 (research);

(e) this Part.

(3) Section 86(9)—

(a) so far as it relates to section 22(4B)(e) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, also extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland;

(b) so far as it relates to section 22(4B)(f), (g) and (h) of that Act, also extends to Northern Ireland.

(4) Any amendment or repeal made by this Act has the same extent within the United Kingdom as the enactment amended or repealed.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to the amendment made by section 86(4) (power to make alternative payments) which—

(a) so far as it inserts subsection (4B)(e) into section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,

(b) so far as it inserts subsection (4B)(f), (g) and (h) into that section, extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and

(c) otherwise extends to England and Wales only.

(6) Subsection (4) does not apply to the amendments and repeals made by paragraph 13 of Schedule 12 to section 41 of the Patents Act 1977 which have the same extent as that section.