Employment And Training Act 1973

12 Ancillary and transitional provisions. U.K.

(1) It shall be the duty of the [F1 Secretary 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 [F2 disabled persons] . . . F3 , to give preference, so far as [F4 he . . . ]F5 considers it consistent with the efficient exercise of that power, to persons of the classes specified in section 16 of the M1 Disabled 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”[F6 has the same meaning as in the Equality Act 2010].

[F7 (1A) It shall be the duty . . . F8 of each [F9 local authority or (in Scotland) 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. ]

[F10 (2) It shall be the duty of each [F11 local authority or (in Scotland) 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 [F12 under 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.]

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13

(4) The [F14 Secretary 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 [F15 , 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 [F16 Secretary of State] or board in pursuance of subsection (3) of the preceding section; . . . F17

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18

F19 (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a)

F2 Words 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

F3 Words 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

F4 Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(c)

F5 Words repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I

F6 Words in s. 12(1) substituted by 2010 c. 15 Sch. 26 Pt. 1 para. 3 (as inserted) (1.10.2010) by The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2279), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2 (see S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2)

F7 S. 12(1A) inserted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)

F8 Words repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I

F9 Words in s. 12(1A) substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 28(4)

F10 S. 12(2) substituted by Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7, SIF 113:1), s. 16, Sch. 4 para. 2

F11 Words in s. 12(2) substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 28(4)

F12 Words 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.

F13 S. 12(3) repealed by S.I. 1981/494, art. 2

F14 Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(3)(a)

F15 Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(3)(b)

F16 Words substituted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 25(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(3)(a)

F17 Words repealed by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33, Sch. 4

F18 S. 12(5) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIII

F19 S. 12(6) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 8

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 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

M1 1944 c. 10.