Qualifications Wales Act 2015

13 Duty to prepare list of priority qualifications

(1) Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers must jointly prepare a list of qualifications, in respect of each of which the condition in subsection (2) is met.

(2) The condition is that Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers are satisfied that ensuring and maintaining public confidence in the qualification is a priority for Qualifications Wales, by reason of the significance of the qualification having regard to the needs of learners and employers in Wales.

(3) The list may make provision by reference to qualifications, or descriptions of qualification.

(4) The list must be published, in whatever way Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers agree.

(5) Qualifications Wales and the Welsh Ministers may jointly review the list and, if they consider it appropriate, revise it.

(6) In this Act—

(a) references to a priority qualification are to a qualification included on the list, or to a qualification that is of a description included on the list;

(b) references to a restricted priority qualification are to a priority qualification in respect of which a determination under section 14 has effect;

(c) references to a unrestricted priority qualification are to a priority qualification in respect of which no determination under section 14 has effect.