Finance Act 2017

Exempted education activities

57. The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 120, by inserting the following after subsection (13):

“(13A) As regards paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 1, regulations may—

(a) provide for the conditions under which training or retraining services may or may not be treated as vocational training or retraining services,

(b) specify the bodies which provide Exchequer funding to providers for the purposes of providing education or vocational training or retraining,

(c) provide for the conditions under which education provided to children or young people which, if provided by a recognised school within the meaning of section 10 of the Education Act 1998 , would be the curriculum determined by the Minister for Education and Skills in accordance with that Act.”,

and

(b) in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1, by substituting the following subparagraph for subparagraph (3):

“(3) (a) The provision of—

(i) children’s or young people’s education, school or university education, or

(ii) vocational training or retraining (subject to any conditions as may be specified in regulations),

including the supply of goods and services incidental to that provision, other than the supply of research services, but excluding instruction in the driving of mechanically propelled road vehicles other than the instruction of a kind to which clause (c) relates, by—

(I) a public body,

(II) a provider in receipt of Exchequer funds for the purposes of that provision from a body specified in regulations,

(III) a recognised school within the meaning of the Education Act 1998 ,

(IV) a college within the meaning of section 2 of the Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 , or

(V) a university mentioned in section 3 of the Universities Act 1997 .

(b) The provision by a body of any of the following:

(i) a programme of education and training within the meaning of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 which is validated under section 45 of that Act;

(ii) a course which is considered by the Minister for Justice and Equality as an acceptable basis for the granting of an immigration permission, where such body is included on a list published by that Minister;

(iii) a course accredited by an approved college, within the meaning assigned by section 473A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 ;

(iv) education to children or young people which, if provided by a recognised school within the meaning of section 10 of the Education Act 1998 , would be the curriculum determined by the Minister for Education and Skills in accordance with that Act (subject to any conditions as may be specified in regulations);

(v) vocational training or retraining (subject to any conditions as may be specified in regulations),

including the supply of goods and services incidental to that provision, other than the supply of research services, but excluding instruction in the driving of mechanically propelled road vehicles other than the instruction of a kind to which clause (c) relates.

(c) Instruction in the driving of the following mechanically propelled road vehicles:

(i) vehicles designed or constructed for the carriage of 1. 5 tonnes of goods or more;

(ii) vehicles designed or constructed for the carriage of more than 9 persons (including the driver).”.