Paragraph 1

In this Schedule–

• “EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992^f1 as adjusted by the protocol signed at Brussels on 17thMarch 1993^f2;

• “EEA migrant worker” means a person who is a national of a member State of the European Economic Area who has taken up an activity as an employed person in the United Kingdom–

  1. (a)

     under Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community, as extended by the EEA Agreement^f3; or

  2. (b)

     in circumstances where as a national of the United Kingdom the person has an enforceable Community right to be treated no less favourably than a national of another member State in relation to matters which are the subject of the above mentioned Council Regulation;

• “European Community” means the territory comprised by the member states of the European Community as constituted from time to time;

• “European Economic Area” means the European Community, and subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement, the area comprised by the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway and the Principality of Liechtenstein;

• “Islands” means the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;

• “national of a member state of the European Community” means a person who is a national for the purposes of the Community Treaties of any member state of the European Community (including the United Kingdom) as constituted from time to time;

• “parent” includes a step-parent, a guardian, any other person having parental responsibility for a child and any person having care of a child, and “child” shall be construed accordingly;

• “relevant day” means the first day of the first academic year of a full - time course of higher education.

For the purposes of this Schedule, an area which–

shall be considered to have always been part of the European Community or the European Economic Area, as the case may be.

Schedule 2 shall have effect for the purposes of determining whether a person is to be treated, for the purposes of this Schedule, as being, or having been, ordinarily resident in a place at, or for, a particular time.