Legal background
- The legislation relating to the existing policy is set out in a combination of primary and subordinate legislation. The current provisions are in the following primary legislation and related subordinate legislation:
- Company Directors’ Disqualification Act 1986
- Further and Higher Education Act 1992
- The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (as amended by the Deregulation Act 2015 and the Enterprise Act 2016)
- Insolvency Act 1986.
- Further legal background is included in the commentary on the individual provisions.