The Agriculture (Student fees) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made: 9th January 2020

Coming into operation: 1st August 2020

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Amendment to the Agriculture (Student fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

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Revocation

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on 9th January 2020

Seamus McErlean — A senior officer of the — Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Agriculture (Student fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007.

These Regulations increase the level of fee to be paid by persons undertaking a course of higher education provided by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs as set out in Regulations 4 and 7.

Regulation 5 introduces a tuition fee for international students who first start a course of higher education provided by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on or after 1st August 2020 and provides a definition of ‘international students’ for the purpose of these regulations.

Regulation 6 re-numbers regulation 4(4) to regulation 4(6) as a result of regulation 4.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Art. 3(4); and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development; see The Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c.5 (N.I.), Article 1(2)

[^f00002]: 1949 c.2 (N.I.). Section 5A(1) and (2) was inserted by Article 42(1) of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1915 (N.I. 11))

[^f00003]: S.R. 2007 No.54

[^f00005]: S.R. 2009 No.373; Schedule 2 was amended by S.R. 2010 No. 383, S.R. 2012 No. 62, S.R. 2012 No. 398, S.R. 2017 No. 7 and S.R. 2019 No. 35

[^f00007]: S.R. 2019 No.108

Editorial notes

[^key-9454fd88187cec066c01fbbbcfa9215a]: Regulation revoked (1.9.2022) by The Agriculture (Student fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/199), regs. 1, 22