The Deregulation Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015

Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

2.—(1) The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “training allowance”—

(a) in paragraph (a), omit “for Employment” and “the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”;

(b) in paragraph (c), omit “for Employment”.

(3) In regulation 61(1) (interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (d) of the definition of “access funds”, omit “the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”;

(b) in the definition of “full-time course of advanced education”—

(i) in paragraph (a), for “, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding” substitute “or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009”;

(ii) in paragraph (b), for “, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding” substitute “or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009”;

(iii) in paragraph (b)(i)—

(aa) omit “under section 14 of the Education Act 2002 or the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”;

(bb) for “either of those persons” substitute “the Secretary of State”.

(c) in the definition of “full-time course of study”—

(i) in paragraph (a), for “, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding” substitute “or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009”;

(ii) in paragraph (b), for “, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding” substitute “or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009”;

(iii) in paragraph (b)(i)—

(aa) omit “under section 14 of the Education Act 2002 or the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”;

(bb) for “either of those persons” substitute “the Secretary of State”.

(4) In paragraph 28 (persons engaged in training) of Schedule 1B (prescribed categories of person), omit “, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1967, as amended by S.I. 1989/1323, S.I. 1991/236, S.I. 1991/387, S.I. 2001/652, S.I. 2001/2319, S.I. 2008/3157, S.I. 2009/583, S.I. 2010/1941 and S.I. 2012/956. There are other amendments which are not relevant to this Order.