The Individual Learning Accounts Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Education or training for which grants can be paid

7.—(1) The education or training referred to in regulation 6 is any education or training other than excepted education which is—

(a) of a kind specified by the Department in any way it thinks fit; and

(b) provided by a person who has registered with a learning account administrator and whose registration has not been withdrawn.

(2) In this regulation, excepted education is—

(a) secondary education as defined in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1);

(b) full-time higher education (that is to say education provided by means of a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 1 to the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(2));

(c) education or training which is a statutory requirement for the person’s particular employment;

(d) other such education or training as may be specified by the Department.

(1)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3); the definition of “secondary education” in Article 2(2) was amended by the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2406 (N.I. 20)), Article 196 and Schedule 10 (words repealed) and by the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1772 (N.I. 15), Schedule 4

(2)

S.I. 1997/1772 (N.I. 15)