Government training schemes etc.
18.—(1) These Regulations shall not have effect in relation to a fixed-term employee who is employed on a scheme, designed to provide him with training or work experience for the purpose of assisting him to seek or obtain work, which is either—
(a)provided to him under arrangements made by the Government, or
(b)funded in whole or part by an Institution of the European Community.
(2) These Regulations shall not have effect in relation to a fixed-term employee whose employment consists in attending a period of work experience not exceeding one year that he is required to attend as part of a higher education course.
(3) For the purpose of paragraph (2) “a higher education course” means—
(a)in England and Wales, a course of a description referred to in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988(1);
(b)in Scotland, a course of a description falling within section 38 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992(2); and
(c)in Northern Ireland, a course of a description referred to in Schedule 1 to the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(3).
1992 c. 37; section 38 was amended by the Education (Scotland) Act 1996 (c. 43), Schedule 5, paragraph 9.
S.I. 1997/1772 (N.I. 15).