6.—[F1(1)] [F2[F3Subject to paragraph (2)] ,] in determining for the purposes of section 2(1)(b) of the Act (persons aged 16 but under 19 who are to be treated as children) whether a person is receiving full-time education [F2not being advanced education], no account shall be taken of a period (whether beginning before or after the person concerned attains age 16) of up to 6 months of any interruption to the extent to which it is accepted that the interruption is attributable to a cause which is reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case; and where the interruption or its continuance is attributable to the illness or disability of mind or body of the person concerned, the period of 6 months may be extended for such further period as is accepted as being reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case.
[F4(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply to any period of interruption of a person's full-time education which is likely to be followed immediately or which is followed immediately by a period during which:-
(a)[F5provision is made for the training of that person, and for an allowance to be payable to that person, under the youth training scheme; or]
(b)he is receiving education by virtue of his employment or of any office held by him.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 6(1): reg. 6 renumbered as reg. 6(1) (3.10.1977) by The Child Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1977 (S.I. 1977/534), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)
F2Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (3.10.1977) by The Child Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1977 (S.I. 1977/534), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)
F3Words in reg. 6(1) substituted (24.11.1980) by The Child Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1980 (S.I. 1980/1045), regs. 1, 2
F4Reg. 6(2) substituted for reg. 6(2)(3) (24.11.1980) by The Child Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1980 (S.I. 1980/1045), regs. 1, 2
F5Reg. 6(2)(a) substituted (5.8.1988) by The Child Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1227), regs. 1(1)(a), 3