Higher Education and Research Act 2017

16 Suspension of registration

(1) The OfS may suspend a registered higher education provider’s registration if it appears to the OfS that there is or has been a breach of one of its ongoing registration conditions.

(2) Where a provider’s registration is suspended, the OfS—

(a) must specify the purposes for which the provider is not to be treated as a registered higher education provider during the suspension (“the excepted purposes”), and

(b) may impose conditions on the governing body of the provider which, if satisfied, will result in the OfS lifting the suspension (“the remedial conditions”).

(3) During the suspension of a provider’s registration—

(a) the provider is treated as a registered higher education provider for all purposes other than the excepted purposes, and

(b) the provider’s entry in the register remains but must specify—

(i) that the registration is suspended, and

(ii) the excepted purposes.

(4) The suspension of a provider’s registration ends—

(a) when the suspension is lifted by the OfS because the remedial conditions have been satisfied or for any other reason, or

(b) if earlier, when the provider is removed from the register under section 18 (de-registration by the OfS) or section 22 (voluntary de-registration).

(5) The OfS may vary the excepted purposes or the remedial conditions at any time during the suspension.

(6) Where it decides to vary the excepted purposes or the remedial conditions, the OfS must notify the governing body of the provider of its decision.

(7) The notice must specify the excepted purposes, or remedial conditions, as varied.

(8) Where the excepted purposes are varied, the OfS must update the provider’s entry in the register with the excepted purposes (as varied).

(9) Where the suspension of a provider’s registration ends otherwise than when the provider is removed from the register, the OfS must enter the date on which it ends in the provider’s entry in the register.