PART 4PRIORITY QUALIFICATIONS AND APPROVAL OF QUALIFICATIONS
Priority qualifications
13Duty to prepare list of priority qualifications
1
Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers must jointly prepare a list of qualifications, in respect of each of which the condition in subsection (2) is met.
2
The condition is that Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers are satisfied that ensuring and maintaining public confidence in the qualification is a priority for Qualifications Wales, by reason of the significance of the qualification having regard to the needs of learners and employers in Wales.
3
The list may make provision by reference to qualifications, or descriptions of qualification.
4
The list must be published, in whatever way Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers agree.
5
Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers may jointly review the list and, if they consider it appropriate, revise it.
6
In this Act—
a
references to a priority qualification are to a qualification included on the list, or to a qualification that is of a description included on the list;
b
references to a restricted priority qualification are to a priority qualification in respect of which a determination under section 14 has effect;
c
references to a unrestricted priority qualification are to a priority qualification in respect of which no determination under section 14 has effect.