{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/547",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Substitution of regulation 12 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 12 of the General Regulations (relevant education) there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“Relevant education\n12 (1) For the purposes of these Regulations a child or young person is to be treated as receiving relevant education if, and only if—\n(a) he is not receiving advanced education; but\n(b) he is receiving full-time education for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (meaning of child) or, as the case may be, he is treated as a child for the purposes of that section.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation “receiving advanced education” means participating in any course (whether full-time or part-time)—\n(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\n(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.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 9.4.1990, see reg. 1(1)(b)(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 61"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/547/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:39.315395+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."
}