The principal Regulations are amended by the insertion, after regulation 5, of the following—
Foreign language assistants
(5A)
(1) In relation to a person who does not fulfil the conditions specified in regulation 3, the conditions mentioned in paragraph (2) below are prescribed for the purposes of section 30(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, (so that the person is to be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education on a particular day for the purposes of Part I of that Act if, and only if, he fulfils those conditions).
(2) The conditions are that—
(a) on the day the person is registered with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges as a foreign language assistant; and
(b) the day falls within the period of the person’s appointment as a foreign language assistant at a school or other educational institution in Great Britain.