Part 1: The Office for Students Powers to grant degrees etc Sections 44 and 45: Variation or revocation of section 42 authorisation and other authorisations to grant degrees etc
These sections set out the OfS’s powers to vary or revoke, by order, authorisations to grant taught awards and research awards. The OfS can vary or revoke the authorisations it has granted under section 42. It can also vary or revoke the degree awarding powers of other English higher education providers, regardless of whether they were obtained on an indefinite or on a renewable basis. The one exception concerns certain degrees granted by virtue of the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533: see section 55.
	The OfS can only revoke authorisations (see sections 44 and 45) if any of the three conditions specified in the respective section is met. The three conditions relate to registration, quality and standards, and quality and standards following a change of circumstances. Any other pre-existing power to vary or revoke degree awarding powers of English higher education providers ceases to exist once section 45 comes into force.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.