Print Options
PrintThe Whole
Instrument
Status:
Dyma’r fersiwn wreiddiol (fel y’i gwnaed yn wreiddiol). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format.
Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 70 (C. 5)
Education
The Digital Economy Act 2017 (Commencement No. 7) Regulations 2020
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 118(6) of the Digital Economy Act 2017()
Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Commencement No. 7) Regulations 2020.
Commencement of section 114 of the Digital Economy Act 2017
2. Section 114 (qualifications relating to information technology: payment of tuition fees) of the Digital Economy Act 2017 comes into force on 1st August 2020.
Michelle Donelan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Education
28th January 2020
EXPLANATORY NOTE
These Regulations bring into force section 114 (qualifications relating to information technology: payment of tuition fees) of the Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30) on 1st August 2020.
Section 114 amends section 88(1) of, and Schedule 5 to, the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22). The amended Act requires the Secretary of State to ensure that specified qualifications in information technology are free of charge, and provide facilities, for a person aged 19 or over, who does not already have the qualification in question or a comparable or higher level qualification, and who satisfies any conditions as may be specified in Regulations.
NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS
The following provisions of the Digital Economy Act 2017 have been brought into force by Commencement Regulations made before the date of these Regulations:
Yn ôl i’r brig