This section applies if the Welsh Ministers have the power to intervene in the exercise of education functions by a local authority.

The Welsh Ministers may direct the local authority to enter into a contract or other arrangement with a specified person, or a person falling within a specified class for the provision to the authority or the governing body of a school maintained by it (or both), of specified services of an advisory nature.

The direction may require the contract or other arrangement to contain specified terms and conditions.

In this section “specified” means specified in a direction under this section.