Section 30 | Students.

(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.^F1

(2)Regulations under this section may include provision that—^F2

(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;^F3

(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.^F4

(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.^F5

(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.^F6

(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.^F7