Part 8Teachers
Further education
I1I2140 Further education: general
1
Regulations under any of sections 136 to 139 may provide that a specified provision of the regulations shall not apply where a specified condition (which may refer to the opinion of a specified person) is satisfied.
2
Regulations under any of sections 136 to 139 may impose a function on—
a
a F1local authority, or
b
the governing body of a further or higher education institution.
3
In sections 136 to 139—
“education” includes vocational, social, physical and recreational training,
“further education institution” means an institution which—
- a
provides further education and is maintained by a F1local authority, or
- b
is within the further education sector, and
- a
“higher education institution” means an institution which—
- a
is within the higher education sector, and
- b
receives financial support under section 65 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13) (administration of funds by higher education funding councils).
- a
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For the purposes of section 138(3), a university to which an approved plan relates is to be treated (in any case where it would not be so treated but for this subsection) as being a higher education institution.
5
“Approved plan”, in subsection (4), has the meaning given in section 7 of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015.