The person who is liable to pay the Council Tax bill for your home must apply for the exemption or discount disregard. Where more than one person is liable to pay the bill, any one of the “liable persons” can make the application.
A student or student nurse can be disregarded for Council Tax discount purposes only if all of the following conditions apply.
Full-Time Students
- Attending a prescribed educational establishment
- Undertakes a course of at least one academic or calendar year
- The course normally requires the student to attend for at least 24 weeks each year and for at least 21 hours per week (this includes attendance, tuition, study or work experience)
Please note that where a person undertakes work experience, it is a requirement that the period of work experience does not exceed 50% of the total course time except in the case of student teachers who are exempt from these rules. Open University courses, subject to meeting the criteria would be considered as full time courses. Likewise Project 2000 nurses are regarded to be a student for the purposes of these provisions.
Under 20 and Undertaking Qualifying Course of Education
A person can be disregarded if the following criteria are met in full:
- Aged under 20
- Not undertaking a full time course of education
- Undertakes more than 12 hours of study per week
- The course is for more than 3 calendar months
- The course is not one of higher education
- The course is otherwise than correspondence
- The course is not undertaken as part of a person’s employment (day release, etc.)
- The course is normally carried out during 8.00am to 5.30pm
- The time criteria must consist of tuition, supervised study, exercise or project work
Full written evidence or a student certificate will be required along with proof of date of birth
Student Nurses
- Attending University or Polytechnic as full time students
- On Project 2000 courses
- Undertaking traditional nurse training leading to initial registration on the Nursing Register
Please Note: These student disregard rules are laid down by Government regulations, not by the Council. The Council are not able to change these rules. If there are 2 or more adults in the property who are not disregarded for any reason no exemption / discount will be applicable.