Regulation 6 Other Conditions

(1)

The conditions specified in this regulation are—

(a)

that—

(i)

where the relevant area is the area of an authority specified in Part I of the Schedule, the student’s final school year was the 1998/1999 or 1999/2000 school year, if the student attended school, or the 1998/1999 or 1999/2000 academic year if he did not attend school,

(ii)

where the relevant authority is specified in Part II of the Schedule, the student’s final school year was the 1999/2000 school year if the student attended school or the 1999/2000 academic year if he did not attend school;

(b)

that regulation 6(1)(b) of the Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 1999^f1 (signature of education maintenance allowance learning agreement) was complied with before 21st August 2000 or that—

(i)

a parent of the student and the student have 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,

(ii)

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

(iii)

the student has signed an education maintenance allowance learning agreement if the student is an independent student,

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 that the education maintenance allowance learning agreement has in each case also been signed on behalf of the institution (or, as the case may be, each institution); 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 a relevant educational establishment paragraph (1)(b) shall have effect as if—

(a)

references to attending the institution had effect as references to being educated otherwise than at an institution;

(b)

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; and

(c)

the reference to the education maintenance allowance learning agreement being signed on behalf of the institution was a reference to such agreement being signed on behalf of the local education authority.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1999/2168.