Part 1: The Office for Students Enforcement of ongoing registration conditions Section 21: Refusal to renew an access and participation plan
This section applies in circumstances where a registered higher education provider is required as a condition of registration to have an access and participation plan and fails, in the view of the OfS, to comply with a requirement of that plan or with a fee limit condition imposed under section 10.
	In those circumstances the OfS is able to refuse to approve a new plan once the current one comes to an end. That refusal may last for a period that the OfS specifies in a notice. The Secretary of State may make regulations about the matters the OfS should take into account in deciding whether or not to refuse, the procedure it should follow when giving notice of refusal and the effect that the notice has.
	Such regulations must also provide for a review process before any decision to refuse becomes final. Subsection (4) imposes that requirement and specifies further detail about what regulations must contain about the review procedure.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.