SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Approved English apprenticeships

PART 3Apprenticeships: Wales

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

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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.

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

a

after “withdrawn” insert “by the Welsh issuing authority”;

b

omit paragraphs (a) and (b).

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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,”.