The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (Supplementary Functions and Revocation) Order 2012

• Citation: S.I. 2012/1904 (W.)
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Title, commencement, application and interpretation

(1) The title of this Order is the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (Supplementary Functions and Revocation) Order 2012 and it comes into force on 31 August 2012.

(2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.

(3) In this Order—

(a) “the 2011 Regulations ” (“ Rheoliadau 2011 ”) means the Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2011 ; and

(b) “new fee grant” (“ grant newydd at ffioedd ”) has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the 2011 Regulations.

Section 2 Revocation

The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (Supplementary Functions) Order 2011 is revoked on 31 August 2012.

Section 3 Supplementary Functions

The following functions, being functions of the Welsh Ministers under the 2011 Regulations, are conferred on the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales —

(a) functions relating to the payment of new fee grant under regulation 65A of the 2011 Regulations ;

(b) functions relating to the recovery of an overpayment of new fee grant under regulation 70 of the 2011 Regulations; and

(c) functions relating to a request for and receipt of information under Schedule 3 to the 2011 Regulations, in so far as those functions relate to the payment or recovery of a new fee grant.

Section 4 Supplementary Functions

Nothing in this Order prevents the Welsh Ministers from exercising the functions described in article 3.