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Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 497

Education, England

Education, Northern Ireland

The Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations Order 2016

Made

12th April 2016

Coming into force

13th April 2016

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 12th day of April 2016

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2(1)(za) of Schedule 9 to the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009(1), makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as The Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations Order 2016 and comes into force on 13th April 2016.

Appointment of chief executive of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation

2.  Sally Collier is appointed as the chief executive of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, and is to be known as the Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations, from 25th April 2016.

Ceri King

Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints Sally Collier to the role of chief executive of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, which is established by section 127 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. In accordance with paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 9 to that Act, the person appointed to that position is to be known as the Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations.

(1)

2009 c.22. Paragraph 2(1)(za) was inserted by section 21 of, and paragraphs 1, 2(1) and (2(a) of Schedule 7 to, the Education Act 2011 (2011 c.21)