Part 1

The Office for Students

Enforcement of ongoing registration conditions

Suspension of registration
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1
The OfS may suspend a registered higher education provider’s registration if it appears to the OfS that there is or has been a breach of one of its ongoing registration conditions.
2
Where a provider’s registration is suspended, the OfS—
a
must specify the purposes for which the provider is not to be treated as a registered higher education provider during the suspension (“the excepted purposes”), and
b
may impose conditions on the governing body of the provider which, if satisfied, will result in the OfS lifting the suspension (“the remedial conditions”).
3
During the suspension of a provider’s registration—
a
the provider is treated as a registered higher education provider for all purposes other than the excepted purposes, and
b
the provider’s entry in the register remains but must specify—
i
that the registration is suspended, and
ii
the excepted purposes.
4
The suspension of a provider’s registration ends—
a
when the suspension is lifted by the OfS because the remedial conditions have been satisfied or for any other reason, or
b
if earlier, when the provider is removed from the register under section 18 (de-registration by the OfS) or section 22 (voluntary de-registration).
5
The OfS may vary the excepted purposes or the remedial conditions at any time during the suspension.
6
Where it decides to vary the excepted purposes or the remedial conditions, the OfS must notify the governing body of the provider of its decision.
7
The notice must specify the excepted purposes, or remedial conditions, as varied.
8
Where the excepted purposes are varied, the OfS must update the provider’s entry in the register with the excepted purposes (as varied).
9
Where the suspension of a provider’s registration ends otherwise than when the provider is removed from the register, the OfS must enter the date on which it ends in the provider’s entry in the register.