Regulation 6 Other Conditions

(1)

The conditions specified in this regulation are–

(a)

that the student, unless he was educated otherwise than at school, was during the 1998–9 or 1999–2000 school year in a class in which the majority of students reached the age of 16;

(b)

that–

(i)

a parent of the student has signed an education maintenance allowance learning agreement, unless the student is an independent student or a looked after student when he starts to attend the institution; or

(ii)

a person nominated by the relevant authority has signed an education maintenance allowance learning agreement, if the student is a looked after student when he starts to attend the institution,

in each case relating to the student and to the institution which the student attends (or, if the student attends more than one institution, relating to each institution which the student attends); and

(c)

that the student and the student’s parents provide the relevant authority with such information and make such declarations as the authority may reasonably require.

(2)

Where a student is to be educated otherwise than at an institution paragraph (1)(b) shall have effect as if references to attending the institution had effect as references to being educated otherwise than at an institution and the reference to the institution which the pupil attends had effect as a reference to the education which the student is to be provided with.