Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973) by providing that awards of family credit shall be reviewed and shall terminate where persons between the ages of 16 and 19 leave, or have already left, full-time education during the period those awards are in effect and that person is the only member of that household in respect of whom family credit is payable (regulation 2). The Regulations also define what is to constitute full-time education for the purpose of this requirement.

The Report of the Social Security Advisory Committee dated 2nd May 1996 on the proposals referred to them in respect of these Regulations, together with a statement showing the extent to which these Regulations give effect to the Recommendations of the Committee, and in so far as they do not give effect to them, the reaons why not, are contained in Command Paper Cm 3297, published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.