# The Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992, Paragraph 5


(1) A person is to be regarded as undertaking a qualifying course of education on a particular day only if on that day—
(a) he is under the age of 20,
(b) he is not undertaking a course of full time education within the meaning of paragraphs 3 and 4 above; and
(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.
(2) A person is undertaking a course on a day for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) if—
(a) the day falls in the relevant period for that course, and
(b) he is not an apprentice or a youth training trainee.
(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/548/schedule/1/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discount-disregards-order-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-5
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