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Qualified child — extension to end of academic year.
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7.—(1) Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (4) (inserted by section 38 of the Act of 1996):
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“(4A) (a) Subject to paragraph (b)—
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(i) notwithstanding subsection (3)(a), a person who reaches the age of 18 years while attending a full-time day course of study, instruction or training at an institution of education, shall continue to be regarded as a qualified child for the purposes of that subsection until the next following 30 June or until he or she completes the full-time day course, whichever is earlier, and
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(ii) notwithstanding section 170, a person who reaches the age of 18 years while attending a full-time day course of study, instruction or training at an institution of education, shall continue to be regarded as a child dependant for the purposes of that section until the next following 30 June or until he or she completes the full-time day course, whichever is earlier.
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(b) For the purposes of paragraph (a), the Minister may prescribe the conditions subject to which a person shall be regarded as attending a full-time day course of study, instruction or training at an institution of education.
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(c) In this subsection, ‘institution of education’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 126(2).”.
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(2) This section comes into operation—
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(a) in so far as it relates to unemployment assistance, pre-retirement allowance and farm assist, on 27 March 2002,
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(b) in so far as it relates to unemployment benefit, on 28 March 2002, and
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(c) in so far as it relates to disability benefit, health and safety benefit, injury benefit and supplementary welfare allowance, on 1 April 2002.
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