18Welsh issuing authority
(1)The Welsh Ministers may designate a person to issue apprenticeship frameworks relating to a particular apprenticeship sector.
(2)The power conferred by this section must be exercised so as to secure that, at any time, only one person is designated by the Welsh Ministers to issue apprenticeship frameworks relating to a particular apprenticeship sector.
(3)A person designated under this section must, in exercising functions under this Chapter—
(a)comply with directions given by the Welsh Ministers;
(b)have regard to guidance given by the Welsh Ministers.
(4)A designation under this section may be amended or revoked by the Welsh Ministers.
(5)In this Chapter the “Welsh issuing authority”, in relation to an apprenticeship framework, means the person designated under this section to issue frameworks of that description.