The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012

Amendments relating to full-time, non-advanced education: income support

11.  In paragraph 15A of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulations(1) (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—

(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)”

(1)

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.