Regulation 5 Further amendments to the principal regulations

for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)

training by means of a course which—

(i)

prepares students to obtain a vocational qualification which, immediately before 1st April 2001, was, or fell within a class, approved for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) of Schedule 2 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992^f1, or

(ii)

leads to an external qualification approved under section 98 or 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000^f2 for the purposes of section 97 of that Act;”;

in sub-paragraph (c), for the words from “approved by the Secretary of State” to the end, substitute

“which—

(i)

was, immediately before 1 April 2001, approved for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) of Schedule 2 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, or

(ii)

is approved under section 98 or 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 for the purposes of section 97 of that Act;”;

for sub-paragraph (e)(i) substitute—

“(i)

in England and Wales, training by means of a course which—

(a)

prepares students to obtain a vocational qualification which, immediately before 1 April 2001, was, or fell within a class, approved for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) of Schedule 2 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, or

(b)

leads to an external qualification approved under section 98 or 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 for the purposes of section 97 of that Act,”.

in paragraph (a), for the words from “qualification approved by the Secretary of State” to the end, substitute

“qualification which—

(i)

was, immediately before 1st April 2001, approved for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) of Schedule 2 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, or

(ii)

is approved under section 98 or 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 for the purposes of section 97 of that Act;”;

in paragraph (c) for “for the time being” substitute “which was, immediately before 1st April 2001”.