4. For regulation 5 of the principal regulations (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as receiving full-time education) there shall be substituted the following regulation—
5.—(1) For the purposes of the Act the education which is specified in paragraph (2) shall be treated as full-time education.
(2) The education referred to in paragraph (1) is education received by a person attending a course of education at a recognised educational establishment and in the pursuit of that course, 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, exceeds 12 hours per week, so however that in calculating the time spent in pursuit of the course, no account shall be taken of time occupied by meal breaks or spent on unsupervised study, whether undertaken on or off the premises of the educational establishment.”.