PART 1General

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (Adult Education Functions) Order 2018 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) Part 2 of this Order applies only in relation to the provision of education or training in an academic year beginning on or after 1st August 2019.

(3) In paragraph (2), “academic year” means a period beginning with 1st August and ending with the next 31st July.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 2009 Act” means the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009(1);

“adult detention” has the meaning given by section 121(4)(2) of the 2009 Act;

“apprenticeships training” has the meaning given by section 83(5)(3) of the 2009 Act;

“the Area” means the area of the Combined Authority; and

“the Combined Authority” means the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, a body corporate established under the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority Order 2014(4).

(2)

Section 121 was amended by paragraph 30 of Schedule 1 to the Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c.19); paragraph 22 of Part 2 of Schedule 1, and paragraph 27 of Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c.20); and by paragraph 8 of Schedule 18 to the Education Act 2011 (c.21).

(3)

Section 83 was amended by paragraph 14 of Part 2 of Schedule 1, and paragraph 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20); by paragraph 89 of Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6); and by paragraph 5 of Schedule 18 to the Education Act 2011 (c. 21).

(4)

S.I. 2014/865 as amended by S.I. 2017/430. Article 3(2) provides that “the combined authority is to be a body corporate and to be known as the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority”. However, section 104(4) of the Local Democracy Act applies section 97 of the Local Transport Act 2008 (c.26) (change of name of ITA) to a combined authority as it applies to an Integrated Transport Authority and on 1 April 2014 the Combined Authority passed a resolution in relation to which the requirements mentioned in section 97(2) were met, to change the name by which the Combined Authority is known from the Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral Combined Authority to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.