PART 4

PRIORITY QUALIFICATIONS AND APPROVAL OF QUALIFICATIONS

Power for Welsh Ministers to specify minimum requirements

Power to specify minimum requirements
21
1
The Welsh Ministers may by regulations specify minimum requirements, in relation to a qualification, that are to be met by any form of that qualification approved under this Part.
2
The requirements must relate to the knowledge, skills or understanding required to be demonstrated for the purpose of determining whether a person is to be awarded the qualification.
3
But a requirement may be specified in relation to a qualification only if the Welsh Ministers are satisfied that it is necessary to specify that requirement in order to ensure that the curriculum pursued by persons taking a course leading to the qualification is appropriate for the reasonable needs of those persons.
4
Before making regulations under this section specifying minimum requirements, the Welsh Ministers must consult Qualifications Wales and such other persons (if any) as they consider appropriate, specifying—
a
the proposed minimum requirements, and
b
their reasons for proposing them.
5
Where requirements have been specified in relation to a qualification by regulations under this section, Qualifications Wales may not approve a form of that qualification under this Part unless satisfied that form of the qualification complies with those requirements.
S. 21 in force at 21.9.2015 by S.I. 2015/1687, art. 2 (with arts. 3-12)