Section 30 — Local Government Finance Act 1988: Students.

Students. 30 1 For the purposes of this Part a person shall be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education on a particular day if (and only if) he fulfils such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State. 1A For the purposes of this Part a person shall be treated as undertaking a qualifying course of education on a particular day if (and only if) he fulfils such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

2 Regulations under this section may include provision that—

a as regards any educational establishment of a prescribed description an individual (to be called a certification officer) may be designated by the appropriate registration officer, or otherwise identified, in accordance with prescribed rules;

b a certification officer shall at a prescribed time supply to a person who is pursuing or is about to pursue a course at the establishment, and who is of a prescribed description, a certificate in a prescribed form and containing prescribed particulars;

c conditions prescribed under subsection (1) or (1A) above shall include a condition as to the possession of such a certificate;

d failure to supply a certificate to a person in accordance with the regulations is actionable by the person concerned as a breach of statutory duty.

3 Regulations under subsection (1) above shall include a statement of what courses constitute, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, full-time courses of nursing education; but this is without prejudice to the power to provide, or not to provide, that a person undertaking such a course is to be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education for the purposes of this Part. 3A Regulations under subsection (1A) above must be so framed that undertaking a course of higher education is not treated as undertaking a qualifying course of education for the purposes of this Part.

4 Regulations under this section may include provision allowing or requiring the appropriate registration officer to revoke a designation of an individual as a certification officer. 5 “ The appropriate registration officer ” means the registration officer for such charging authority as may be prescribed as regards the educational establishment concerned.

6 A course of higher education is a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988.