PART IICONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT

F1Prescribed categories of person4ZA.

(1)

Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1B applies falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to income support).

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply to a F2full-time student during the period of study.

(3)

A F2full-time student during the period of study falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act only if—

(a)

F3paragraph 1 of Part I of the Schedule to the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000 applies to him; or

(b)

paragraph 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, or 18 of Schedule 1B applies to him; or

(c)

any other paragraph of Schedule 1B applies to him and he has a partner who is also a F2full-time student, and either he or his partner is treated as responsible for a child or young person, but this provision shall apply only for the period of the summer vacation appropriate to his course.

F4(3A)

Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person to whom section 6 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (exclusion from benefits) applies.

F5(4)

A person who falls within a prescribed category in Schedule 1B for the purposes of this regulation for any day in a benefit week, shall fall within that category for the whole of that week.