{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-regulations-2000/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-regulations-2000/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2012",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-pilot-areas-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Achievement bonus",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided in paragraph (5) and 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 in respect of any learning goal where the course which led to the achievement of such learning goal started after the end of the period of eligibility.\n(3) Except in the case of a vulnerable student no achievement bonus shall be paid—\n(b) if an achievement bonus has already been paid—\n(i) three times, where during the student’s final school year, 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(4) 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.\n(5) No achievement bonus may be paid where the relevant authority is North East Lincolnshire or Worcestershire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2012/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:46.846921+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."
}