Education Reform Act 1988

227 Application to Wales

(1) The Secretary of State may incur expenses in connection with the commissioning by him of such work, including programmes of research, development and dissemination, as he may require to be carried out for the purpose of facilitating the discharge, in relation to Wales, of any of his functions under sections 3 and 4 of this Act.

(2) Sections 121, 122 and 129 of this Act shall not apply in relation to institutions in Wales.

(3) The activities eligible for funding under section 132 of this Act shall not include the provision by institutions in Wales of prescribed courses of higher education; and accordingly the power of the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council under subsection (7)(b) of that section shall not extend to making grants in respect of expenditure incurred for the purposes of the provision of such courses by institutions in Wales.

(4) The Secretary of State may by order make provision for applying in relation to institutions in Wales, with such modifications (if any) as he considers appropriate, all or any of the following, that is to say—

(a) sections 121, 122 and 129 of this Act; and

(b) the powers of the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council in relation to the provision of prescribed courses of higher education.