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(2)There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—
(a)any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Act; and
(b)any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums payable under any other Act out of money so provided;
and any sums received by the Secretary of State by virtue of this Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
(3)Where it appears to the [F2Secretary of State] or an industrial training board [F3established under section 1 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 or section 1 of the Industrial Training Act 1982] that any person would have been entitled, by reference to an injury or disease developed by him or another person in consequence of attendance at a course provided or approved [F4by or on behalf of the Secretary of State or by] the board or in consequence of the use of facilities so provided or approved, to receive any benefit or increase in benefit in pursuance of [F5[F6Parts II to V of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992] but for the fact that he or the other person was not at a relevant time an employed earner], the [F2Secretary of State] or the board may make to him payments equal to the whole or part of the benefit or increase in question; . . . F7
Textual Amendments
F1S. 11(1) repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I
F2Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25, Sch. 2 para. 1(a)
F3Words substituted by Industrial Training Act 1982 (c. 10, SIF 43:1), s. 20, Sch. 3 para. 3
F4Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25, Sch. 2 para. 1(b)
F5Words substituted by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 68
F6Words in s. 11(3) substituted (1. 7. 1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2 para.10.
F7Words repealed by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33(2), Sch. 4
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 11(3): Functions transferred (1.7.1999 subject to s. 56(1) of the amending Act) by 1998 c. 46, s. 53(1) (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)
(1)It shall be the duty of the [F8Secretary of State] in exercising any power to select disabled persons for courses of training and other courses or any power to submit for engagements the names of [F9disabled persons] . . . F10, to give preference, so far as [F11he . . . F12] considers it consistent with the efficient exercise of that power, to persons of the classes specified in section 16 of the M1Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 (which specifies the classes of ex-service men and women to whom preference is to be given in pursuance of that section); and in this subsection “disabled person”[F9has the same meaning as in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.]
[F13(1A)It shall be the duty . . . F14 of each local education authority to furnish the Secretary of State with such information in its possession as the Secretary of State may specify as being information required by him in connection with the determination of questions relating to the exercise by him of any power under this Act to make payments to any persons; and any information falling to be furnished in pursuance of this subsection shall be furnished in such form and at such times as the Secretary of State may direct.]
[F15(2)It shall be the duty of each local education authority and the Commission to furnish the Secretary of State with such information in its possession as the Secretary of State may require as being information required in connection with the determination of questions relating to contributions or benefit [F16under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992] and any information falling to be furnished in pursuance of this subsection shall be furnished in such a form and at such times as the Secretary of State may direct.]
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(4)The [F18Secretary of State] or an industrial training board may make to any person payments by way of travelling and subsistence allowances and compensation for loss of remunerative time which [F19, in the case of payments by such a board, are approved by the Secretary of State and which the Secretary of State] or board considers are appropriate in connection with the person’s attendance at any examination connected with a claim for payments from the [F20Secretary of State] or board in pursuance of subsection (3) of the preceding section; . . . F21
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(6)If the term of office of any person as a member of a Youth Employment Committee would apart from this subsection expire on or after the day when this subsection comes into force but before the date when the Committee is abolished, the term shall by virtue of this subsection be extended so as to expire on that date.
Textual Amendments
F8Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a)
F9Words in s. 12(1) substituted (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, s. 70(4), Sch. 6 para. 1 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2, Sch. Pt. III
F10Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 45:3), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(b) and repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I
F11Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(c)
F12Words repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I
F13S. 12(1A) inserted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)
F14Words repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I
F15S. 12(2) substituted by Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7, SIF 113:1), s. 16, Sch. 4 para. 2
F16Words in s. 12(2) substituted (1. 7. 1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 11.
F17S. 12(3) repealed by S.I. 1981/494, art. 2
F18Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(3)(a)
F19Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(3)(b)
F20Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(3)(a)
F21Words repealed by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33, Sch. 4
F22S. 12(5) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIII
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2S. 12(4): Functions transferred (1.7.1999 subject to s. 56(1) of the Amending Act) by 1998 c. 46, s. 53(1) (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)
Marginal Citations
(1)In this Act, apart from Schedule 2, the following expressions have the following meanings—
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“employee”, . . . F25, includes a person engaged under a contract for services, and “employer” shall be construed accordingly;
“employment”, . . . F25, means employment under a contract of service or apprenticeship or a contract for services or otherwise than under a contract, and “employed” shall be construed accordingly;
“facilities” includes services;
“functions” includes powers and duties;
“local education authority”, in relation to Scotland, means an education authority as defined in section 145(16) of the M2Education (Scotland) Act 1962;
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“training” includes any education with a view to employment, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly; and
“university”, in relation to Scotland, includes a central institution and a college of education as defined in section 145 of the M3Education (Scotland) Act 1962.
[F26(1A)Any reference in this Act to redundancy shall be construed as a reference to the existence of one or other of the facts specified in section 1(2)(a) and (b) of the M4Redundancy Payments Act 1965.]
(2)A reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference to it as amended, and includes a reference to it as applied, by or under any other enactment.
(3)The powers conferred on the Secretary of State by this Act are in addition to and not in substitution for any powers exercisable by him apart from this Act.
(4)Any power to make an order which is conferred on the Secretary of State by this Act apart from Schedule 2 shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and an order made in the exercise of such a power—
(a)may include such supplemental and incidental provisions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate for the purposes of the order;
(b)may, except in the case of an order made by virtue of section 8(6) or 12(3) of this Act, be varied or revoked by a subsequent order so made, so however that an order appointing a day shall not be varied or revoked by virtue of this subsection on or after that day.
(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F27
Textual Amendments
F23Definition repealed by Employment and Training Act 1981 (c. 57, SIF 43:1), ss. 11(2), 20, Sch. 3
F24Definitions repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I
F25Words repealed by Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Sch. 18
F26S. 13(1A) inserted by Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Sch. 14 para. 3
F27S. 13(5) repealed by Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Sch. 18
Marginal Citations
(1)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect subject to the provisions of that Schedule; . . . F28
(2)The enactments mentioned in the first and second columns of Schedule 4 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule; but nothing in this subsection affects the application of hte Industrial Training Act 1964 to the Agricultural Training Board.
Textual Amendments
F28Words repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), ss. 19, 20, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1, Sch. 3
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3Words repealed in relation to Agricultural Training Board by Agricultural Training Board Act 1982 (c. 9, SIF 2:1), s. 11(1), Sch. 2
(1)This Act may be cited as the Employment and Training Act 1973.
(2)This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint, and—
(a)different days may be appointed in pursuance of this subsection for the purposes of different provisions of this Act or for different purposes of the same provision of this Act; and
(b)any such order may contain such transitional provisions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with the order.
(3)This Act, except section 12(5), paragraphs . . . F29, 9 and . . . F30 of Schedule 3 and Schedule 4 so far as it relates to section 20 of the M5Employment and Training Act 1948 and to the M6Agriculture Act 1970, does not extend to Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
F29Words repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), Sch. 3 and Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Sch. 18
F30Words repealed by Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Sch. 18
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4Power of appointment conferred by section 15(2) partly exercised: S.I. 1973/2063, 1974/398, 1463, 1975/689
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