Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022

Financial support for other activities connected to tertiary education

103 Financial support for other activities connected to tertiary education

(1) The Commission or the Welsh Ministers may secure the provision of financial resources for the purpose of, or in connection with—

(a) the provision or proposed provision of information, advice or guidance about‍ relevant education or connected matters;

(b) the provision or proposed provision of information, advice or guidance to persons ordinarily resident in Wales about education or training outside Wales or connected matters;

(c) the provision or proposed provision of facilities designed to form links between (on the one hand) employers and (on the other) persons who provide or receive‍ relevant education.

(2) The Commission may secure the provision of financial resources for—

(a) the purpose of‍ providing, through the medium of Welsh, relevant education that is tertiary education;

(b) the purpose of teaching Welsh‍ by means of relevant education that is tertiary education;

(c) other purposes connected to those in paragraphs (a) and (b).

(3) In subsections (1) and (2), “relevant education” means—

(a) Welsh tertiary education, or

(b) other education or training provided wholly or mainly in Wales or to persons who are ordinarily resident in Wales.

(4) The Commission or the Welsh Ministers may secure the provision of financial resources under subsection (1), and the Commission may secure the provision of financial resources under subsection (2)—

(a) by providing resources itself or themselves;

(b) by making arrangements for the provision of resources by another person;

(c) by making arrangements for the provision of resources by persons jointly (whether or not including the Commission or the Welsh Ministers).

(5) The Commission may not provide its financial resources under subsection (2), or make arrangements for a local authority to provide such resources under subsection (4)(b), to the governing body of a maintained school in Wales for the purpose of, or for a purpose connected with, the provision by the school of education suitable to the requirements of persons over compulsory school age (for provision as to the funding of school sixth-forms, see section 101).

(6) If the Commission itself, or the Welsh Ministers themselves, provide financial resources under subsection (1) or (2), they may impose such terms and conditions as they consider appropriate.

(7) The terms and conditions may (among other things)—

(a) enable the Commission or the Welsh Ministers to require the repayment, in whole or in part, of sums paid by them if any of the terms and conditions subject to which the sums were paid is not complied with;

(b) require the payment of interest in respect of any period in which a sum due to the Commission or the Welsh Ministers in accordance with any of the terms and condition remains unpaid.

(8) If the Commission has made arrangements under subsection (4) for another person to provide the Commission’s financial resources, the Commission may require that person to provide the resources subject to such terms and conditions that the Commission considers appropriate (including terms and conditions of a kind that could be imposed under subsection (7)).