The Personal Community Charge (Students) Regulations 1989

Nursing education

6.—(1) Pursuant to section 30(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, in the opinion of the Secretary of State a course constitutes a full-time course of nursing education if it is a course–

(a) which would (if successfully completed) lead to the person undertaking it being registered on a part of the register maintained under section 10(1) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979(1), or which is undertaken by persons so registered with a view to the recording of an additional qualification on the register in accordance with rules made under section 10(3)(a) of that Act;

(b) which subsists for at least one academic year of the educational establishment providing it or, in the case of an establishment which does not have academic years, for at least one calendar year;

(c) which persons undertaking it are normally required by the educational establishment concerned to attend (whether at premises of the establishment or otherwise) for periods of at least 24 weeks in each academic or calendar year (as the case may be) during which it subsists; and

(d) the nature of which is such that a person undertaking it would normally require to undertake periods of study, tuition or other training (including work experience) which together amount in each such academic or calendar year to an average of at least 21 hours a week as respects the periods of attendance mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) for the year.

(2) Regulation 2(2) shall apply to paragraph (1) above as if references to paragraphs (b) or (c) of the definition of “full-time course of education” were references to sub-paragraphs (c) or (d) respectively of paragraph (1) above.

(3) Notwithstanding this regulation, a person is to be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education for the purposes of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 only if he is to be so treated by virtue of regulation 3.

(1)

1979 c. 36.