The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

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15A.— [F3 (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.]

F4 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) In this paragraph—

“chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(b);

[F5 “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—

(a)

provided at a school or college, or

(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)]

“parent” includes a person acting in place of a parent which—

(a)

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(a) and (b) has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(i), and

(b)

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(c), has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(ii).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1B inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 22, Sch. 1

F2 Sch. 1B para. 15A heading substituted (1.4.2012) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(a)

F3 Sch. 1B para. 15A(1)-(4) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(b)

F4 Sch. 1B para. 15A(5) omitted (1.4.2012) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(c)

F5 Words in Sch. 1B para. 15A(6) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/757), regs. 1(4), 11(d)