The Individual Learning Account (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Education and training for which grant can be paid

10.—(1) “Approved Learning” means any education or training, other than excepted education or training, which has been approved by a Learning Account Administrator and which is provided by a Learning Provider that has been registered by a Learning Account Administrator for the purposes of regulation 6 and that registration has not been suspended, withdrawn or cancelled.

(2) In this regulation, “excepted education or training” means—

(a) secondary education within the meaning of section 135(2)(b) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(1);

(b) full-time higher education (that is to say education provided by means of a full-time course of any description mentioned in section 38(2)(b), (c), (d) or (e) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992(2);

(c) education or training which is a statutory requirement for the individual’s particular employment;

(d) lessons for the purposes of sitting a test of competence to drive leading to a category A or B driving licence granted under the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations 1999(3); and

(e) such other education or training as the Scottish Ministers may determine.

(1)

1980 c.44.

(2)

1992 c.37.

(3)

S.I. 1999/2864.