Part 4: Miscellaneous and General Higher education course fee limits: administration Section 34: Relevant date for purposes of fee limit for certain higher education courses
This section amends paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 2 to HERA 2017. Certain tuition fee limits for academic years of higher education courses depend on whether the provider had a high-level quality rating (currently a Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework rating) on a particular date.
	This section corrects an error in the existing legislation. Previously, the legislation was written such that the particular date, in relation to higher education providers without an access and participation plan, was 1 January in the calendar year before that academic year began. For example, for academic year 2022/23, the relevant date would have been 1 January 2021.
	This section changes the date to 1 January in the calendar year in which the academic year begins. This means that, in the case of the example above, the date would be 1 January 2022. This is closer in time to the actual provision and so more accurately reflects the access and participation plan status.