Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the General Regulations

in the definition of “lone parent” for the words “is not a” there shall be substituted the words “has no”;

after the definition of “the Macfarlane Trust” there shall be inserted the following definition–

• ““training allowance” means an allowance (whether by way of periodical grants or otherwise) payable–

  1. (a)

     out of public funds by a Government department or by or on behalf of the Training Agency;

  2. (b)

     to a person for his maintenance or in respect of a member of his family; and

  3. (c)

     for the period, or part of the period, during which he is following a course of training or instruction provided by, or in pursuance of arrangements made with, that department or approved by that department in relation to him or so provided or approved by or on behalf of that Agency,

  but it does not include an allowance paid by any Government department to or in respect of a person by reason of the fact that he is following a course of full-time education, other than under arrangements made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973^f1 or is training as a teacher;”.