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Regulation 11 Amendments relating to full-time, non-advanced education: income supportI1

England, Wales and Scotland

In paragraph 15A of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulationsf1 (prescribed categories of persons: persons under 21 with no parents, or living away from their parents, undertaking full-time, non-advanced education)—

(a)

for the heading substitute—

“Certain persons who have enrolled on, been accepted for or are undertaking full-time, non-advanced education”;

(b)

for sub-paragraphs (1) to (4) substitute—

“(1)

A person (“P”) who satisfies the following conditions.

(2)

The first condition is that P has enrolled on, been accepted for or is undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.

(3)

The second condition is that P is—

(a)

under the age of 21; or

(b)

21 and attained that age whilst undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.

(4)

The third condition is that—

(a)

P has no parent;

(b)

of necessity P has to live away from P’s parents because—

(i)

P is estranged from P’s parents,

(ii)

P is in physical or moral danger, or

(iii)

there is a serious risk to P’s physical or mental health; or

(c)

P is living away from P’s parents because they are unable to support P financially and are—

(i)

chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled,

(ii)

detained in custody pending trial or sentencing upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court, or

(iii)

prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain.”;

(c)

sub-paragraph (5) is omitted;

(d)

in sub-paragraph (6), for the definition of “course of full-time, non-advanced education”, substitute—

  • ““course of full-time, non-advanced education” means a course of full-time education which is not a course of advanced education and which is not provided to P by virtue of P’s employment or any office held by P, which is—

    1. (a)

      provided at a school or college, or

    2. (b)

      provided elsewhere but is approved by the Secretary of State as being such a course,

    and for this purpose, “course of advanced education” has the same meaning as in regulation 61(1)”

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 11 in force at 1.4.2012, see reg. 1(4)

Footnotes

f1

Schedule 1B is inserted by S.I.1996/206. Paragraph 15A is inserted by S.I.2009/583 and amended by S.I.2009/2665.