126Provisions relating to education provided under partnership arrangements
(1)The [1996 c. 56.] Education Act 1996 shall have effect in relation to education provided under relevant partnership arrangements subject to the following provisions of this section.
(2)For the purposes of that Act—
(a)full-time education suitable to the requirements of persons who are over compulsory school age but under the age of 19 which is provided at a school at which education within section 2(2)(a) of that Act is also provided shall not be regarded as secondary education, and
(b)a person for whom full-time or part-time education suitable to the requirements of such persons is being provided at a school shall not be regarded as a pupil,
if that education is being provided under a relevant partnership arrangement.
(3)Accordingly, education within subsection (2)(a) above which is provided under a relevant partnership arrangement shall, for the purposes of that Act, be regarded as further education.
(4)In this section “relevant partnership arrangement” means a partnership arrangement to which section 60A of the [1992 c. 13.] Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (as inserted by section 125(4)) applies.