2017 No. 788 (C. 64)

Education, England

The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017

Made

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 124(5) and (6) of the Higher Education and Research Act 20171:

Citation1

These Regulations may be cited as the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017.

Provisions coming into force on 1st January 20182

The following provisions of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 come into force on 1st January 2018—

a

section 1 (the Office for Students);

b

Schedule 1 (the Office for Students).

Joseph JohnsonMinister of StateDepartment for Education
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are the first commencement regulations made under the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (“the Act”). They bring section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act into force on 1st January 2018. Section 1 provides for the establishment of the Office for Students (“OfS”). Schedule 1 makes further provision about the OfS, including its membership, staffing and procedure, its accounts, audit and reporting responsibilities and its supplementary powers. Schedule 1 also amends the Public Records Act 1958 (c. 51), the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (c. 13), the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25), the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36) and the Equality Act 2010 (c. 15). The amendments add the OfS to the list of bodies subject to provisions of those Acts.