Part 1: The Office for Students Access and participation Section 34: Review of decisions on approval or variation
This section ensures that any decision to approve a plan or subsequently to vary an approved plan can be reviewed before it becomes final. It does so by ensuring that any regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 29 about the approvals process or under section 33 about varying a plan must create a review procedure. The key features that regulations must include are that:
any approval or variation decision should be provisional;
the institution should be able to apply for review by a person or panel appointed and paid by the Secretary of State;
regulations must state the grounds on which a provisional decision can be reviewed;
the OfS must reconsider the provisional decision in light of the person or panel’s recommendations.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.