{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-regulations-1999/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-regulations-1999/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2168",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Achievement bonus",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) an allowance (“an achievement bonus”) may be paid in respect of any student who achieves any learning goal arising from being in full time education.\n(2) No achievement bonus shall be paid–\n(a) in respect of any learning goal where the course which led to the achievement of such learning goal started after the pupil reached the age of 20;\n(b) if an achievement bonus has already been paid–\n(i) three times, where during the school year in which he ceased to be of compulsory school age, the student had a statement of special educational needs made under section 324 of the Education Act 1996; or\n(ii) twice in any other case; or\n(c) if an achievement bonus has already been paid in respect of another learning goal where the course which led to that learning goal ended in the same academic year as the course which led to the learning goal in question.\n(3) In this regulation “learning goal” means a standard of achievement (whether taking the form of a qualification or not) which is specified in relation to the student in the education maintenance allowance learning agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2168/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:42.342663+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}