Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 1841
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 2002
Made
16th July 2002
Laid before Parliament
23rd July 2002
Coming into force
19th August 2002
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 518 and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996( 1 ) the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 19th August 2002.
Amendment of Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2001
2. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Pilot Areas) Regulations 2001( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.
3. In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation)—
(a) for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of “vulnerable student” there shall be substituted the following—
“ (a) is at any time during a relevant period in the opinion of the local authority estranged from his parents, or has at any time been in receipt of any of the allowances specified in regulations 8, 9, 10 or 11 while being so estranged, but has later reconciled with his parents,
(b) is pregnant at any time during a relevant period, or has at any time been in receipt of any of the allowances specified in regulations 8, 9, 10 or 11 while she was pregnant, whether or not as a result of that pregnancy she became, or continued to be, a parent to whom child benefit is paid under Part IX of the 1992 Act, ”
(b) for paragraph (g) of the definition of “vulnerable student” there shall be substituted the following—
“ (g) has not, by the end of the student’s final school year, achieved NVQ level 1, GNVQ level 1 or more than one GCSE pass at grade A-C or obtained any qualifications of a higher standard, ”
4. In regulation 2 for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“ (6) Any reference in these Regulations to the student’s final school year is a reference to the academic year in which the student reached the age of 16. ”
5. In regulation 6(1) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“ (a) that—
(i) where the relevant area is the area of an authority specified in Part I of the Schedule, the student’s final school year was the 1998–1999, 1999–2000, 2000–2001 or 2001–2002 academic year,
(ii) where the relevant area is the area of an authority specified in Part II of the Schedule (or the wards in East Lancashire specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant area”), the student’s final school year was the 1999–2000, 2000–2001 or 2001–2002 academic year; ” .
Margaret Hodge
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Skills
16th July 2002
1996 c. 56 ; section 518 was substituted by section 129 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) . By virtue of S.I. 1999/672 the powers conferred by this section are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England.
S.I. 2001/2750 .