The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Conversion of Framework Powers) Order 2007

Amendments to Part 1 of the Schedule: matters

3.—(1) Part 1 of the Schedule is amended as follows.

(2) In field 5 (education and training), insert—

• “Matter 5.1

  Provision about the categories of school that may be maintained by local education authorities.

• Matter 5.2

  Provision about the establishment and discontinuance of schools maintained by local education authorities, their change from one category to another and their alteration in other respects.

• Matter 5.3

  Provision about the admission of pupils to schools maintained by local education authorities.

• Matter 5.4

  Provision about the curriculum in schools maintained by local education authorities.

• Matter 5.5

  Provision about school attendance, the behaviour of pupils at school, school discipline and the exclusion of pupils from school (including the duties of parents in connection with those matters).

• Matter 5.6

  Provision about the making of arrangements for the provision of education for persons of compulsory school age who have been excluded from schools or who for any other reason would not otherwise receive suitable education.

• Matter 5.7

  Provision about entitlement to primary, secondary and further education and to training.

• Matter 5.8

  Provision about the provision of services that are intended to encourage, enable or assist people—

  (a)

  to participate effectively in education or training,

  (b)

  to take advantage of opportunities for employment, or

  (c)

  to participate effectively in the life of their communities.

• Matter 5.9

  Provision about food and drink provided on school premises or provided for children at a place where they receive education or childcare.

• Matter 5.10

  Provision about the travel of persons receiving primary, secondary or further education or training to and from the schools or other places where they receive it.

  This does not include provision about any of the following—

  (a)

  the regulation of the use of motor vehicles on roads, their construction and equipment and conditions under which they may be so used;

  (b)

  road traffic offences;

  (c)

  driver licensing;

  (d)

  driving instruction;

  (e)

  insurance of motor vehicles;

  (f)

  drivers’ hours;

  (g)

  traffic regulation on special roads, pedestrian crossings, traffic signs and speed limits;

  (h)

  public service vehicle operator licensing;

  (i)

  the provision and regulation of railway services, apart from financial assistance which—

  (i)

  does not relate to the carriage of goods,

  (ii)

  is not made in connection with a railway administration order, and

  (iii)

  is not made in connection with Council Regulation (EEC) 1191/69 as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1893/91 on public service obligations in transport;

  (j)

  transport security;

  (k)

  shipping, apart from financial assistance for shipping services to, from or within Wales;

  (l)

  navigational rights and freedoms, apart from regulation of works which may obstruct or endanger navigation;

  (m)

  technical and safety standards of vessels;

  (n)

  harbours, docks, piers and boatslips, apart from those used or required wholly or mainly for communications between places in Wales;

  (o)

  registration of local bus services, and the application and enforcement of traffic regulation conditions in relation to those services.

• Interpretation of this field

  Expressions used in this field and in the Education Act 1996 have the same meaning in this field as in that Act.”.

(3) In field 9 (health and health services), insert—

• “Matter 9.1

  Provision for and in connection with the provision of redress without recourse to civil proceedings in circumstances in which, under the law of England and Wales, qualifying liability in tort arises in connection with the provision of services (in Wales or elsewhere) as part of the health service in Wales.

• Interpretation of this field

  In this field—

  “the health service in Wales” means the health service continued under section 1(1) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;

  “illness” has the same meaning as in that Act;

  “patient” has the same meaning as in that Act;

  “personal injury” includes any disease and any impairment of a person’s physical or mental health;

  “qualifying liability in tort” means liability in tort owed in respect of or consequent upon personal injury or loss arising out of or in connection with breach of a duty of care owed to any person in connection with the diagnosis of illness or the care or treatment of any patient.”.