The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefits (Miscellaneous) Amendment Regulations 1991

Amendment of regulation 46 of the 1987 Regulations

8.  In regulation 46 of the 1987 Regulations (interpretation)–

(a) after the definition of “grant income” there shall be inserted the following definition–

““Last day of the course” means the date on which the last day of the final academic term falls in respect of the course in which the student is enrolled;”;

(b) in the definition of “period of study”–

(i) in paragraph (a) for the words “to the end” there shall be substituted the words “and ending with the last day of the course”;

(ii) in paragraph (b), after the words “any subsequent year of the course,” there shall be added the words “other than the final year of the course,”;

(iii) after paragraph (b)(ii) there shall be added the following paragraph–

“(c) in the final year of a course of study of more than one year, the period beginning with that year’s start and ending with the last day of the course;”;

(c) in the definition of “student”, for the words “the end of the course” there shall be substituted the words “the last day of the course”.