# The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 2002, Regulation 3: Amendment of Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2001


In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation)—
(a) for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of “vulnerable student” there shall be substituted the following—
“(a) is at any time during a relevant period in the opinion of the local authority estranged from his parents, or has at any time been in receipt of any of the allowances specified in regulations 8, 9, 10 or 11 while being so estranged, but has later reconciled with his parents,
(b) is pregnant at any time during a relevant period, or has at any time been in receipt of any of the allowances specified in regulations 8, 9, 10 or 11 while she was pregnant, whether or not as a result of that pregnancy she became, or continued to be, a parent to whom child benefit is paid under Part IX of the 1992 Act,”
(b) for paragraph (g) of the definition of “vulnerable student” there shall be substituted the following—
“(g) has not, by the end of the student’s final school year, achieved NVQ level 1, GNVQ level 1 or more than one GCSE pass at grade A-C or obtained any qualifications of a higher standard,”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1841/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-3
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