The Personal Community Charge (Students) (Scotland) Regulations 1989

Full-time course of nursing education etc.

4.  Any reference in section 8(6A) and (6B) of the Act to—

(a) a full-time course of nursing education shall be construed as meaning any course leading to a qualification for registration in any of the parts of the Register maintained by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting under section 10 of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979—

(i) which is provided by an educational establishment within the meaning of regulation 3(a)(i), (ii), (iii), (v) or (vi) of these Regulations, and

(ii) which a person undertaking the course is required by the educational establishment to attend for a period of at least 24 weeks within each academic year of the establishment required to complete the course, and

(iii) in respect of which, in the opinion of the educational establishment, a person would ordinarily require to undertake periods of study or tuition (including any periods of industrial, professional or commercial experience associated with the course which he requires to undertake to complete the course) which amount, in the aggregate, to an average of at least 21 hours a week during the period mentioned in subparagraph (ii) above;

(b) a person undertaking a full-time course of nursing education shall be construed as meaning a person who—

(i) enrols with an educational establishment providing a full-time course of nursing education for the purpose of attending that course, and

(ii) attends that course during the period ordinarily required for its completion, or during such other period for its completion as the educational establishment may allow in the circumstances of that person,

and such a person continues to undertake that course during such a period notwithstanding that it may include periods which are not term time and, for this purpose, “term time” means any period in the academic year of an educational establishment during which a person undertaking a full-time course of nursing education is required by the educational establishment providing the course to attend the course at such place or places as the educational establishment may specify or approve;

(c) a person ceasing to undertake a full-time course of nursing education shall be construed as meaning a person who no longer undertakes the course because—

(i) he has completed it; or

(ii) he has abandoned it; or

(iii) he is no longer permitted by the educational establishment to attend it.