The Right to Time Off for Study or Training (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Right to Time Off for Study or Training (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001 and will come into force on 1st October 2001.

Amendment of the Right to Time Off for Study or Training (Scotland) Regulations 1999

2.  The Right to Time Off for Study or Training (Scotland) Regulations 1999(1) are amended in accordance with the following regulations.

3.  In regulation 2 (interpretation) there is inserted in the appropriate places in alphabetical order the following definitions:–

““ASVCE” means Advanced Subsidiary Vocational Certificate of Education;”;

““AVCE” means Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education;”;

““Key Skills Qualification” means a qualification made up of qualifications in the Key Skills of Communication, Application of Number and Information Technology;”.

4.  For regulation 3(2)(g) there is substituted–

“(g) where an employee has been awarded a Key Skills Qualification where level 2 in each of the qualifications which make up the Key Skills Qualification has been achieved the employee shall be treated as having achieved one GCSE Grade A* to C”.

5.  In regulation 3(4)(standard of achievement) after sub-paragraph (g) there is inserted–

“(h) grades A to E in one ASVCE; and

(i) grades A to E in one AVCE.”.

6.  In the Schedule (Awarding Bodies) section B (SVQ Awarding Bodies) the following awarding body is omitted:–

• “Leather Producing Industry Vocational Qualifications Board”.

7.  In the Schedule (Awarding Bodies) section F (Key Skills Awarding Bodies) after “Pitman Qualifications” there is inserted the following awarding body:–

• “Qualifications for Industry Ltd;”.

ALASDAIR MORRISON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

5th September 2001