PART IIMISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO CARER'S ALLOWANCE

Circumstances in which persons are to be regarded as receiving full-time educationF15.

(1)

For the purposes of F2section 70(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, a person shall be treated as receiving full-time education for any period during which he attends a course of education at a university, college, school or other educational establishment for twenty-one hours or more a week.

(2)

In calculating the hours of attendance under paragraph (1) of this regulation–

(a)

there shall be included the time spent receiving instruction or tuition, undertaking supervised study, examination or practical work or taking part in any exercise, experiment or project for which provision is made in the curriculum of the course; and

(b)

there shall be excluded any time occupied by meal breaks or spent on unsuper-vised study, whether undertaken on or off the premises of the educational establishment.

(3)

In determining the duration of a period of full-time education under paragraph (1) of this regulation, a person who has started on a course of education shall be treated as attending it for the usual number of hours per week throughout any vacation or any temporary interruption of his attendance until the end of the course or such earlier date as he abandons it or is dismissed from it.