{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/schedule-1B/paragraph-15A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/schedule-1B/paragraph-15A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1967",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1B/paragraph/15A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15A",
  "heading": "Certain persons who have enrolled on, been accepted for or are undertaking full-time, non-advanced education",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) who satisfies the following conditions.\n(2) The first condition is that P has enrolled on, been accepted for or is undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.\n(3) The second condition is that P is—\n(a) under the age of 21; or\n(b) 21 and attained that age whilst undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.\n(4) The third condition is that—\n(a) P has no parent;\n(b) of necessity P has to live away from P’s parents because—\n(i) P is estranged from P’s parents,\n(ii) P is in physical or moral danger, or\n(iii) there is a serious risk to P’s physical or mental health; or\n(c) P is living away from P’s parents because they are unable to support P financially and are—\n(i) chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled,\n(ii) detained in custody pending trial or sentencing upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court, or\n(iii) prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In this paragraph—\n“chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(b);\n“course of full-time, non-advanced education” means a course of full-time education which is not a course of advanced education and which is not provided to P by virtue of P’s employment or any office held by P, which is—\n(a)provided at a school or college, or\n(b)provided elsewhere but is approved by the Secretary of State as being such a course,\nand for this purpose, “course of advanced education” has the same meaning as in regulation 61(1)\n“parent” includes a person acting in place of a parent which—\n(a)for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(a) and (b) has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(i), and\n(b)for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(c), has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(ii).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1B inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 22, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1B para. 15A(1)-(4) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1B para. 15A(5) omitted (1.4.2012) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1B para. 15A(6) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 1B para. 15A heading substituted (1.4.2012) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1967/schedule/1B/paragraph/15A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:57.034883+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."
}