30 Students.E+W
(1)For the purposes of this Part a person shall be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education on a particular day if (and only if) he fulfils such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
[F1(1A)For the purposes of this Part a person shall be treated as undertaking a qualifying course of education on a particular day if (and only if) he fulfils such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.]
(2)[F2Regulations under this section] may include provision that—
(a)as regards any educational establishment of a prescribed description an individual (to be called a certification officer) may be designated by the appropriate registration officer, or otherwise identified, in accordance with prescribed rules;
(b)a certification officer shall at a prescribed time supply to a person who is pursuing or is about to pursue a course at the establishment, and who is of a prescribed description, a certificate in a prescribed form and containing prescribed particulars;
(c)conditions prescribed under subsection (1) [F3or (1A)] above shall include a condition as to the possession of such a certificate;
(d)failure to supply a certificate to a person in accordance with the regulations is actionable by the person concerned as a breach of statutory duty.
(3)[F4Regulations under subsection (1) above] shall include a statement of what courses constitute, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, full-time courses of nursing education; but this is without prejudice to the power to provide, or not to provide, that a person undertaking such a course is to be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education for the purposes of this Part.
[F5(3A)Regulations under subsection (1A) above must be so framed that undertaking a course of higher education is not treated as undertaking a qualifying course of education for the purposes of this Part.]
(4)[F6Regulations under this section] may include provision allowing or requiring the appropriate registration officer to revoke a designation of an individual as a certification officer.
(5)“The appropriate registration officer” means the registration officer for such charging authority as may be prescribed as regards the educational establishment concerned.
[F7(6)A course of higher education is a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 30(1A) inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 9(2)
F2Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 9(3)(a)
F3Words inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 9(3)(b)
F4Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 9(4)
F5S. 30(3A) inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 9(5)
F6Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 9(6)