Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires—

• “the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

• “central institution” has the same meaning as in section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(^f1);

• “designated institution” has the same meaning as in section 44(2) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992(^f2);

• “District Health Authority” and “Regional Health Authority” have the same meanings as in section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977(^f3);

• “further education”, in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in section 1(5)(b) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(^f4), in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in section 41 of the Education Act 1944(^f5) and, in relation to Northern Ireland, has the same meaning as in article 5(c) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(^f6);

• “Health Board” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(^f7);

• “qualifying course of education” has the meaning assigned to it by Schedule 1 to this Order;

• “relevant activities” with respect to a qualifying course of education means the receipt of tuition, the undertaking of supervised study or examination, and the taking part (as part of the curriculum of the course) in any supervised exercise, experiment, project or practical work;

• “the relevant number of hours per week” in relation to such a course 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 (excluding for the purpose of calculating that average any part of that period which is a period of vacation);

• “the relevant period” for a programme or course means the period commencing with the day on which a person begins that programme or course and ending with the day ( “the last day”) on which he completes it, abandons it or is dismissed from it (which period includes any period of vacation between terms and before the last day);

and any reference to a paragraph in Schedule 1 to the Act includes a reference to that paragraph as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 11 to the Act.