The Council Tax (Discount Disregards) (Amendment) (England) Order 2006

Amendment of the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992

2.—(1) The Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 1 (definition of students, etc.)—

(a) in Part I (apprentices)—

(i) in paragraph 1(1)(b) for “National Council for Vocational Qualifications” substitute “Qualifications and Curriculum Authority”,

(ii) for paragraph 1(1)(c) substitute—

“(c) employed at a salary or in receipt of an allowance or both, which are, in total no more than £195 per week”;

(b) in paragraph 2(a) of Part II (students), for “the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges” substitute “the British Council”; and

(c) for paragraph 8(1) of Part IV (youth training), substitute—

“8.— (1) A person is a youth training trainee on a particular day if, on that day he is—

(a) under the age of 25; and

(b) undertaking training—

(i) pursuant to arrangements made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(2),

(ii) which is funded by the Learning and Skills Council for England.”

(3) In Part I (establishments for students) of Schedule 2 (prescribed educational establishments)—

(a) omit paragraph 1(d), and

(b) in the definition of “further education” in paragraph 2, for “the Education Act 1944” substitute “section 2 of the Education Act 1996(3)”.

(1)

S.I. 1992/548, amended by S.I. 1998/291; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(2)

1973 c. 50. Section 2 was substituted by section 25(1) of the Employment Act 1988 (c.19) and subsections (4) and (6) were repealed by Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 1989 (c.38).

(3)

1996 c. 56. Subsections (2A) and (2B) were inserted by section 110(1) of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c.21). Subsection (1) was substituted by section 156(2) of the Education Act 2002 (c.32). Subsection (6A) was inserted by section 177(1) and (3) of the Education Act 2002. Subsections (2A), (2B), (3) and (4) were amended by section 177(1) and (2) of, Schedule 7 to, paragraph 33 of Schedule 21 to, and Schedule 22 to the Education Act 2002.