# The Personal Community Charge (Students) (Scotland) Regulations 1989, Regulation 3: Full-time course of education etc.


For the purposes of section 8(6) of the Act (liability for the personal community charge and the personal community water charge)—
(a) “educational establishment” means—
(i) a university and any college, school, hall or other institution of a university;
(ii) a central institution within the meaning of section 135(1) of the 1980 Act;
(iii) a college of education within the meaning of section 135(1) of the 1980 Act;
(iv) any other institution for the provision of further education in Scotland;
(v) an establishment of further education in England or Wales maintained or assisted by a local education authority within the meaning of the 1944 Act or in receipt of grants made under regulations made under section 100 of that Act();
(vi) an institution within the P.C.F.C. funding sector;
(vii) a college of education within the meaning of article 2(2) of the 1986 Order;
(viii) an institution of further education in Northern Ireland provided by an Education and Library Board constituted in accordance with Schedule 1 to the 1986 Order;
(ix) a theological college;
(x) an institute of a Research Council established by Royal Charter under section 1 of the Science and Technology Act 1965();
(b) “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 each academic year of the establishment required to complete the course, and
(iii) in respect of which, in the opinion of the educational establishment, a person would ordinarily require to undertake periods of study or tuition (including any periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with the course which he requires to undertake to complete the course) which amount, in the aggregate, to an average of at least 21 hours a week during the period mentioned in subparagraph (ii) above,
but does not include any such course leading to a qualification for registration in any of the parts of the Register maintained by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting under section 10 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979();
(c) “person undertaking a full-time course of education” means a person who—
(i) enrols with an 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;
(d) “term time” means any period in the academic year of an 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;
(e) “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/1989/32/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-students-scotland-regulations-1989/regulation-3
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