# The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, Paragraph 15A: Certain persons who have enrolled on, been accepted for or are undertaking full-time, non-advanced education


(1) A person (“P”) who satisfies the following conditions.
(2) The first condition is that P has enrolled on, been accepted for or is undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.
(3) The second condition is that P is—
(a) under the age of 21; or
(b) 21 and attained that age whilst undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.
(4) The third condition is that—
(a) P has no parent;
(b) of necessity P has to live away from P’s parents because—
(i) P is estranged from P’s parents,
(ii) P is in physical or moral danger, or
(iii) there is a serious risk to P’s physical or mental health; or
(c) P is living away from P’s parents because they are unable to support P financially and are—
(i) chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled,
(ii) detained in custody pending trial or sentencing upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court, or
(iii) prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain.
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6) In this paragraph—
“chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(b);
“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—
(a)provided at a school or college, or
(b)provided elsewhere but is approved by the Secretary of State as being such a course,
and for this purpose, “course of advanced education” has the same meaning as in regulation 61(1)
“parent” includes a person acting in place of a parent which—
(a)for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(a) and (b) has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(i), and
(b)for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(c), has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(ii).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1967/schedule/1B/paragraph/15A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/schedule-1B/paragraph-15A
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