Article 6 Students

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 6(1) words substituted by Education (Scotland) Act 2025 (Consequential Provisions) 2025 sch. para. 2(3)
art. 6(1) word omitted by Council Tax (Discounts) 2014 art. 3
art. 6 substituted by Council Tax (Discounts) 2011 art. 3
art. 6(1)(d)(e) inserted by Council Tax (Discounts) 2014 art. 3
art. 6(1A)-(1C) inserted by Council Tax (Discounts) 2014 art. 4

(1)

For the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act, “student” means a person who, on a particular day, is not a student nurse (in terms of article 7) and is–

(a)

registered with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges as a foreign language assistant, provided that the day falls within the period of the person’s appointment as such an assistant at a school or other educational institution in Great Britain;

(b)

aged under 20 and undertaking with a single educational establishment (otherwise than in consequence of an office or employment held by the person)–

(i)

a qualifying course of education in respect of which the relevant number of hours per week exceeds 12; or

(ii)

two or more qualifying courses of education in respect of which the aggregate of the relevant number of hours per week for all those courses exceeds 12; or

(c)

undertaking a course of education–

(i)

which is specified in Schedule 2 to this Order;

(ii)

which is provided by an institution specified in Schedule 3 to this Order;

(iii)

which requires the attendance of persons undertaking it for a period of at least 24 weeks within each academic year of the institution providing it; and

(iv)

in respect of which, in the opinion of the institution, a person would ordinarily require to undertake periods of study or tuition (including any periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with the course which the person requires to undertake to complete the course) which amount, in the aggregate, to an average of at least 21 hours a week during the period mentioned in head (iii) above.

(2)

A person is to be regarded for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) as undertaking a qualifying course of education on a particular day if–

(a)

the day falls within the relevant period for that course; and

(b)

the person is not on that day an apprentice or a youth training trainee (in terms of article 5 or 8).

(3)

A person is to be regarded for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) as undertaking a course of education on a particular day if–

(a)

on the day the person is enrolled with the institution providing the course for the purpose of attending that course; and

(b)

the day falls within the period beginning with the day on which the person begins the course and ending with the day on which the person ceases to undertake it, and for these purposes a person is to be regarded as ceasing to undertake a course of education if the person has completed it, abandoned it or is no longer permitted by the institution to attend it.