# The Personal Community Charge (Students) (Scotland) Regulations 1988, Regulation 3: Definitions for the purposes of section 8 of the Act


For the purposes of section 8 of the Act (liability for the personal community charge and, as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Act, for the personal community water charge)—
(a) “full-time course of education” means a course specified in the Schedule to these Regulations—
(i) which is provided by an educational establishment, and
(ii) which a person undertaking the course is required by the educational establishment to attend for a period of at least 24 weeks within the academic year of the establishment required to complete the course or, if there is more than one such year, within each of them, and
(iii) in the case of a course falling within paragraph 2, 3, 4 or 5 of that Schedule, in respect of which that person is required by the educational establishment to undertake periods of study or, except in the case of a course falling within paragraph 5 of that Schedule, tuition which amount, in the aggregate, to an average of at least 21 hours a week during the period mentioned in subparagraph (ii) above;
(b) “person undertaking a full-time course of education” means a person who—
(i) enrols with the educational establishment providing a full-time course of education for the purpose of attending that course, and
(ii) attends that course during the period ordinarily required for its completion, or during such other period for its completion as the educational establishment may allow in the circumstances of that person,
and such a person continues to undertake that course during such a period notwithstanding that it may include periods which are not term time;
(c) “term time” means any period in the academic year of the educational establishment during which a person undertaking a full-time course of education is required by the educational establishment providing the course to attend the course at such place or places as the educational establishment may specify or approve;
(d) “ceases to undertake the course” means, in relation to a person undertaking a full-time course of education, that such a person no longer undertakes the course because—
(i) he has completed it; or
(ii) he has abandoned it; or
(iii) he is no longer permitted by the educational establishment to attend it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/632/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-students-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-3
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