Part 4The Chief Executive of Skills Funding

Chapter 1Establishment and main duties

Education and training for persons aged 19 or over etc.

I189Sections 87 and 88: supplementary

1

Regulations may make provision as to circumstances in which—

a

despite having a specified qualification, a person is to be treated for the purposes of section 87 or 88 as not having that qualification;

b

despite not having a specified qualification, a person is to be treated for any of those purposes as having that qualification.

2

A condition specified in regulations under section 87 or 88 may, in particular, relate to—

a

the possession, or lack, of a specified qualification;

b

the completion of, or failure to complete, a course for a specified qualification.

3

A reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a specified qualification is to a qualification specified, or of a description specified, in the regulations.

4

Regulations under this section, or under section 87 or 88, may confer a function (which may relate to the administration of an assessment and may include the exercise of a discretion) on a person specified, or of a description specified, in the regulations.

5

Nothing in section 87 or 88 applies to the provision of facilities, or to courses of study, for persons subject to adult detention.

6

Part 2 of Schedule 5 makes further provision for the purposes of sections 87 and 88.