# The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996, Regulation 54: Relevant education


(1) Only full-time education which is undertaken by a child or young person and which is not a course of advanced education shall be treated as relevant education for the purposes of the Act.
(2) A child or young person shall be treated as receiving full-time education where he is a qualifying young person or child within the meaning of section 142 of the Benefits Act (child and qualifying young person).
(3) A young person who–
(a) is a part-time student; and
(b) before he became a part-time student fulfilled the requirements specified for a person falling within paragraph (2) of regulation 11 (part-time students); and
(c) is undertaking a course of study, other than a course of advanced education or a course of study of a kind specified in head (i), (ii) or (iii) of the definition of “full-time student" in regulation 1(3),
shall not be treated as receiving relevant education.
(4) A young person to whom paragraph (3) applied and who has completed or terminated his course of part-time study shall not be treated as receiving relevant education.
(4A) A young person who is participating in a traineeship shall not be treated as receiving relevant education;.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/54 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-54
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