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The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008
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- 2008 No. 794
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- Regulation 17
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17.—(1) For the purposes of the definition of “education” in regulation 14, a person is to be regarded as undertaking a course of study—
(a)subject to paragraph (2), in the case of a person undertaking a part of a modular course that would be a course of study for the purposes of these Regulations, for the period beginning on the day on which that part of the course starts and ending—
(i)on the last day on which the person is registered with the educational establishment as attending or undertaking that part as a full-time course of study; or
(ii)on such earlier date (if any) as the person finally abandons the course or is dismissed from it;
(b)in any other case, throughout the period beginning on the date on which the person starts undertaking the course and ending on the last day of the course or on such earlier date (if any) as the person finally abandons it or is dismissed from it.
(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1), the period referred to in that sub-paragraph includes—
(a)where a person has failed examinations or has failed to successfully complete a module relating to a period when the person was attending or undertaking a part of the course as a course of study, any period in respect of which the person attends or undertakes the course for the purpose of retaking those examinations or that module;
(b)any period of vacation within the period specified in that paragraph or immediately following that period except where the person has registered with the educational establishment to attend or undertake the final module in the course and the vacation immediately follows the last day on which the person is required to attend or undertake the course.
(3) In paragraph (1), “modular course” means a course of study which consists of two or more modules, the successful completion of a specified number of which is required before a person is considered by the educational establishment to have completed the course.
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