{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-regulations-1994/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-regulations-1994/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2946",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as receiving full-time education",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies for the purposes of section 30A(7) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (the circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as receiving full-time education for the purposes of section 30A(2A)(e) of that Act).\n(2) A person shall be treated as receiving full-time education for any period during which—\n(a) he is 16 years of age or over but under the age of 19 years; and\n(b) he attends a course of education for 21 hours or more in a week.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), in calculating the number of hours a week during which a person attends a course, no account shall be taken of any instruction or tuition which is not suitable for persons of the same age and sex who do not suffer from a physical or mental disability.\n(4) In determining the duration of a period of full-time education under paragraph (2), any temporary interruption of that education may be disregarded.\n(5) A person who is 19 years of age or over shall not be treated for the purposes of section 30A(2A)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act as receiving full-time education notwithstanding he is undergoing a full-time education.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4, 5 inserted (6.4.2001) by The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3120), regs. 1, 2(5) (with reg. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2946/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:58.770243+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}