Statutory Instruments
Employment And Training, England
Made
15th August 2017
The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 42, 44 and 47(2) of the Technical and Further Education Act 2017(1):
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2017.
(2) In these Regulations “the 2017 Act” means the Technical and Further Education Act 2017.
2. The following provisions of the 2017 Act come into force on 16th August 2017—
(a)section 1(5), so far as it relates to the provisions brought into force by sub-paragraph (b) (to the extent that they are brought into force by that sub-paragraph);
(b)in Schedule 1—
(i)paragraph 1, so far as it relates to paragraphs 13 and 14; and
(ii)paragraphs 13 and 14.
3. From 16th August 2017 until commencement of section 1(1) of the 2017 Act, section A2B(4) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009(2) is to be read as if for “the Institute” there were substituted “the IfA”(3).
John Nash
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System
Department for Education
15th August 2017
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring into force the specified provisions of the Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c. 19) (“the 2017 Act”) on 16th August 2017. These are the first commencement regulations made under the 2017 Act. Part 4 of, and paragraph 35 of Schedule 1 to, the 2017 Act came into force on the day the 2017 Act was passed.
Regulation 2 commences paragraphs 13 and 14 of Schedule 1 to the Act (and paragraph 1 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs) and section 1(5) so far as it relates to those paragraphs. Paragraph 14 amends section A2B (evaluation of quality of apprenticeship assessments) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22) (“the 2009 Act”) so as to (i) provide that the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education may carry out evaluations of the quality of apprenticeship assessments and (ii) allow the Secretary of State to make regulations so as to allow the Institute to charge fees for things done by it in connection with such evaluations. Paragraph 13 is an amendment in consequence of paragraph 14.
Until such time as section 1(1) of the Act, which will change the name of the Institute for Apprenticeships to the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, is commenced, this transitional provision provides that the reference to “the Institute” in section A2B(4) of the 2009 Act be read as a reference to “the IfA”.
The IfA is the body corporate established under section ZA1 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22) (“the Institute for Apprenticeships”) and referred to as the IfA in subsection (2) of that section.