Government of Wales Act 1998

104[F1Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales or Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru.]U.K.

(1)The provision of funding for [F1Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales or Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru] (“the Chief Inspector”) shall be the responsibility of the Assembly.

(2)What subsection (1) requires of the Assembly is that it shall provide such funding for the Chief Inspector as it considers appropriate.

(3)In deciding what funding it considers appropriate to provide for the Chief Inspector, the Assembly shall have regard in particular to what it considers the Chief Inspector needs to spend in order to discharge his functions effectively.

(4)The Assembly shall before the beginning of each financial year consult the Chief Inspector about the funding it is to provide for him in that financial year F2. . .

[F3(4A)The Assembly shall—

(a)approve the plan submitted to it under section 87 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000; and

(b)determine the amount of the funding it is to provide under this section in accordance with the plan as approved by it.

(4B)But before it gives its approval under subsection (4A)(a), the Assembly may require the Chief Inspector to modify the plan.]

(5)But the consultation required by subsection (4) about the funding to be provided for the Chief Inspector in the first financial year in which his funding is the responsibility of the Assembly shall, if it cannot be carried out before the beginning of that financial year, be carried out as soon as is reasonably practicable.

(6)Schedule 6 (which makes further provision about the Chief Inspector) has effect.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in sidenote and s. 104(1) substituted (1.1.2001) by 2000 c. 21, s. 73(3)(a); S.I. 2000/3230, art. 2, Sch.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I1S. 104 wholly in force at 1.7.1999; s. 104 not in force at Royal Assent; s. 104(6) in force for certain purposes at 1.5.1999 and s. 104 wholly in force at 1.7.1999 by S.I. 1999/1290, arts. 3, 4