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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discount-disregards-order-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/548",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
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  "number": "5",
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  "text": "(1) A person is to be regarded as undertaking a qualifying course of education on a particular day only if on that day—\n(a) he is under the age of 20,\n(b) he is not undertaking a course of full time education within the meaning of paragraphs 3 and 4 above; and\n(c) the relevant number of hours per week for that course, or where he is undertaking 2 or more qualifying courses with the same establishment, the aggregate of the relevant number of hours per week, exceeds 12.\n(2) A person is undertaking a course on a day for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) if—\n(a) the day falls in the relevant period for that course, and\n(b) he is not an apprentice or a youth training trainee.\n(3) In relation to a qualifying course of education “the relevant number of hours per week” means the average number of hours per week a person undertaking it would normally require to spend, in the period during which the course subsists, on relevant activities within the meaning of paragraph 6 below, (excluding for the purpose of calculating that average any period of vacation).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/548/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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