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  "text": "A qualifying course of education is a course of education–\n(a) which subsists for more than 3 calendar months;\n(b) which is not an excepted course;\n(c) with respect to which tuition is principally received otherwise than through correspondence; and\n(d) with respect to which the relevant activities are (insofar as they are normally carried out under the course at particular times) normally so carried out principally between 8.00am and 5.30pm.",
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