PART 3Amendments relating to full-time, non-advanced education

Amendments relating to full-time, non-advanced education: income support11.

In paragraph 15A of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulations24 (prescribed categories of persons: persons under 21 with no parents, or living away from their parents, undertaking full-time, non-advanced education)—

(a)

for the heading substitute—
“Certain persons who have enrolled on, been accepted for or are undertaking full-time, non-advanced education”;

(b)

for sub-paragraphs (1) to (4) substitute—

“(1)

A person (“P”) who satisfies the following conditions.

(2)

The first condition is that P has enrolled on, been accepted for or is undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.

(3)

The second condition is that P is—

(a)

under the age of 21; or

(b)

21 and attained that age whilst undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.

(4)

The third condition is that—

(a)

P has no parent;

(b)

of necessity P has to live away from P’s parents because—

(i)

P is estranged from P’s parents,

(ii)

P is in physical or moral danger, or

(iii)

there is a serious risk to P’s physical or mental health; or

(c)

P is living away from P’s parents because they are unable to support P financially and are—

(i)

chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled,

(ii)

detained in custody pending trial or sentencing upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court, or

(iii)

prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain.”;

(c)

sub-paragraph (5) is omitted;

(d)

in sub-paragraph (6), for the definition of “course of full-time, non-advanced education”, substitute—

““course of full-time, non-advanced education” means a course of full-time education which is not a course of advanced education and which is not provided to P by virtue of P’s employment or any office held by P, which is—

(a)

provided at a school or college, or

(b)

provided elsewhere but is approved by the Secretary of State as being such a course,

and for this purpose, “course of advanced education” has the same meaning as in regulation 61(1)”