
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Agriculture (Student fees)(Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 24th August 2012.
2 
The Agriculture (Student fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 shall be amended as provided by regulations 3 and 4.
3 
In Regulation 4 for substitute:“
4. 

(1) Subject to the following paragraphs and regulation 5, the fee payable to the Department by a person in each academic year in respect of a full-time higher education course shall be £1,380.
(2) Subject to regulation 5, where a person who is ordinarily resident in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man starts the first academic year of a full-time higher education course on or after 1st September 2012, the fee payable to the Department in each academic year shall be £9,000.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation a person who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland as a result of having moved from England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for the purpose of undertaking a course is to be considered as ordinarily resident in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man as the case may be.
(4) The Department may charge a person a fee of such amount as it may determine in respect of any course of further education or part-time education undertaken by that person.”
4 
In regulation 5(2) for “£650” substitute “£680”.
5 
The Agriculture (Student fees)(Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 27th June 2012.
(L.S.)Norman Fulton
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
