The Personal Community Charge (Students) Regulations 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision, as regards the community charges of charging authorities in England and Wales, with respect to persons undertaking full-time courses of education.

Regulation 2 provides relevant definitions, and regulation 3 prescribes, by reference to those definitions, the conditions which must be fulfilled by a person in order that he may be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education for the purposes of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

Regulation 4 provides that the individual having responsibility for registering the enrolment of students to a relevant educational establishment in England or Wales is to be the certification officer for the establishment, and that he is to supply appropriate certificates (in the form prescribed in the Schedule) to people pursuing or about to pursue full-time courses of education at the establishment. Provision is made as respects educational establishments in Wales for the form to be given in Welsh. The possession of such a certificate constitutes one of the conditions prescribed under regulation 3.

Regulation 5 enables a community charge registration officer to request a certification officer to supply him with certain information about those undertaking full-time courses of education at the establishment concerned.

Regulation 6 contains the statement required by section 30(3) of the Act of what courses constitute, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, full-time courses of nursing education.