Part 2: Functions of the Office for Students Section 7: Regulation of duties of students’ unions
This section amends the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 to provide for the regulation by the OfS of students’ unions to which sections A5 and A6 apply in relation to their duties under those sections.
	The OfS must monitor whether students’ unions are complying with those duties. It may impose a monetary penalty on a students’ union if it appears to the OfS that it is failing, or has failed, to comply with its duties. This is to be paid to the OfS and the amount is to be determined by the OfS in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State may also make regulations making provision about matters to which the OfS must, or must not, have regard when imposing a monetary penalty.
	This section requires the OfS to maintain and publish a list of the students’ unions to which, according to the information held by the OfS, sections A5 and A6 apply.
	Students’ union to which sections A5 and A6 apply must provide the OfS with information that it may require. If a students’ union fails to do so, the OfS may enforce the duty with an injunction.