{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Condition relating to youth – full-time education",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act, a claimant is to be treated as receiving full-time education for any period during which the claimant—\n(a) is at least 16 years old but under the age of 19; and\n(b) attends a course of education for 21 hours or more a week.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), in calculating the number of hours a week during which a claimant attends a course, no account is to be taken of any instruction or tuition which is, in the opinion of the Department, not suitable for persons of the same age who do not have a disability.\n(3) In determining the duration of a period of full-time education under paragraph (1) any temporary interruption of that education may be disregarded.\n(4) A claimant who is 19 years of age or over is not to be treated for the purposes of paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act as receiving full-time education.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in operation at 27.9.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/219/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:24.129843+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."
}