Industrial Training Act 1986

1986 CHAPTER 15

An Act to make provision with respect to the functions of industrial training boards.

[20th May 1986]

Be it enactedby the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Training overseas or for overseas employment.

(1) For subsection (1) of section 10 of the [1982 c. 10.] Industrial Training Act 1982 (training for employment overseas) there shall be substituted the following subsections—

“(1) An industrial training board may, with the consent of the Commission given with the approval of the Secretary of State, exercise such functions in connection with training for employment in a similar industry outside Great Britain as are exercisable by it under the relevant provisions in connection with the training of persons employed or intending to be employed in the industry in Great Britain.

(1A) In subsection (1) above ' the relevant provisions' means—

(a) in relation to the training of persons in Great Britain, section 5(1), (3)(d) and (4) above; and

(b) in relation to the training of persons outside Great Britain, paragraphs (a), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of section 5(1) and paragraph (d) of section 5(3) above.”

(2) In section 5 of that Act (general functions of boards), after subsection (6), there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(7) The functions conferred by this section which are exercisable outside Great Britain are those which are exercisable under provisions of it which are applied by section 10(1A) below in connection with the training of persons outside Great Britain under that section.”

2 Short title and commencement.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Training Act 1986.

(2) This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning on the day on which it is passed.