Part 2: Other Education Measures Financial support for students Section 88: Other amendments relating to financial support
This section amends section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.
	Section 22 of the 1998 Act, as amended by this Act, enables the Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers to offer students grants, loans and alternative payments in connection with higher education courses which are designated by or under regulations. This section amends section 22(2) by adding a new subsection (aa) to enable such regulations to make provision designating higher education courses by reference to matters determined or published by OfS or other persons. The purpose of this provision is to enable regulations under section 22(1) to refer to, for example, different categories of the OfS register, and the list published by the OfS under section 18.
	Section 22(2)(b) of the 1998 Act permits regulations to be made prescribing, in relation to any grant, loan and, as amended by this Act, alternative payment, the maximum amount available to any person for any particular purpose. The new section 22(2A) of the 1998 Act enables higher education regulations to make provision prescribing the maximum amount by reference to matters determined or published by the Secretary of State or other persons. This, for example, permits regulations to refer to the list published by the OfS under section 11 and the sub-level amounts determined by the Secretary of State under Schedule 2.
	This section further amends section 22 of the 1998 Act to give the Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers a power to cancel entitlement to suspended student loans and grants. On occasion it may be necessary to suspend payments of student support in connection with higher education, if there are doubts as to whether the payments are properly due under the regulations. This provision clarifies the powers of the Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers to cancel entitlement for the period of suspension for example, if an investigation found that payments are not due.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.