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Version status: Repealed | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 10 May 1997 - onwards

7. Amendment of section 15 (relief for fees paid for part-time third level education) of Finance Act, 1996.

As of 6 April 1997 this text has repealed

 Section 15 of the Finance Act, 1996, is hereby amended -

(a) in subsection (1) -

(i) by the substitution of the following for the definition of "approved college":

" ‘approved college’, in relation to a year of assessment, means a college or institution in the State, or a college or institution in another Member State of the European Union providing distance education in the State, which -

(a) provides courses to which a scheme approved by the Minister under the Local Authority (Higher Education) Grants Acts, 1968 to 1992, applies, or

(b) operates in accordance with a code of standards, which from time to time, may with the consent of the Minister for Finance, be laid down by the Minister,

and which the Minister approves of for the purposes of this section;",

(ii) by the substitution of the following for the definition of "qualifying individual":

" ‘qualifying individual’ means -

(a) an individual other than an individual who has been conferred with a certificate, diploma or degree in respect of the completion by him or her of an undergraduate course of study of not less than 2 academic years duration, or