Deregulation Act 2015

PART 3 Apprenticeships: Wales

24 Part 1 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 is amended as follows.

25 (1) Section 18 (Welsh issuing authority) is amended as follows.

(2) For subsection (2) substitute—

“(2) The power to designate conferred by this section may not be exercised in such a way that there is at any time more than one person designated to issue apprenticeship frameworks relating to a particular apprenticeship sector.”

(3) For subsection (5) substitute—

“(5) In this Chapter, the “Welsh issuing authority”, in relation to an apprenticeship framework, means—

(a) the person (if any) designated under this section to issue frameworks of that description;

(b) if there is no-one so designated, the Welsh Ministers.”

26 In section 19 (issue: Wales), in subsection (2)—

(a) after “withdrawn” insert “by the Welsh issuing authority”;

(b) omit paragraphs (a) and (b).

27 (1) Section 20 (recognised Welsh frameworks: notification and publication) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(b), at the beginning insert “if the issuing authority is not the Welsh Ministers,”.

(3) In subsection (3)—

(a) for “A person who” substitute “A Welsh issuing authority which”;

(b) in paragraph (b), for “in the case of withdrawal otherwise than by the Welsh Ministers,” substitute “in the case where the issuing authority are not the Welsh Ministers,”.