Regulation 3 Amendment of regulation 8

For paragraph (1) of regulation 8 of the principal regulations (credits on termination of full-time education, training or apprenticeship) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“(1)

For the purposes of his entitlement to unemployment benefit or sickness benefit a person shall be entitled to be credited with earnings equal to the lower earnings limit then in force for either one of the last two complete years before the beginning of the relevant benefit year if–

(a)

during any part of that year he was–

(i)

undergoing a course of full-time education; or

(ii)

undergoing–

(a)

a course of training which was full-time and which was arranged under section 2(1) of the Employment and Training Act 1973^f1; or

(b)

any other full-time course the sole or main purpose of which was the acquisition of occupational or vocational skills; or

(c)

if he is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944^f2, a part-time course attended for at least 15 hours a week which, if it was full-time, would fall within either of heads (a) or (b) above; or

(iii)

an apprentice; and

(b)

the other year is, in his case, a reckonable year; and

(c)

that course or, as the case may be, his apprenticeship has terminated.”