Regulation 5 Substitution of regulation 12 of the General RegulationsI1

For regulation 12 of the General Regulations (relevant education) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Relevant education

12

(1)

For the purposes of these Regulations a child or young person is to be treated as receiving relevant education if, and only if—

(a)

he is not receiving advanced education; but

(b)

he is receiving full-time education for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975^f1 (meaning of child) or, as the case may be, he is treated as a child for the purposes of that section.

(2)

For the purposes of this regulation “receiving advanced education” means participating in any course (whether full-time or part-time)—

(a)

leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a diploma of higher education, a higher national diploma, a higher national diploma of the Business and Technician Education Council or the Scottish Vocational Education Council or a teaching qualification; or

(b)

any other course which is a course of a standard above ordinary national diploma, a national diploma of the Business and Technician Education Council or a national certificate of the Scottish Vocational Education Council, a general certificate of education (advanced level), a Scottish certificate of education (higher grade) or a Scottish certificate of sixth year studies.”.