Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22)

Part 4 U.K. The Chief Executive of Skills Funding

Chapter 1 E+W Establishment and main duties

Apprenticeship training for persons aged 16 to 18 and certain young adults E+W

[F1 83B Limit on scope of the apprenticeship offer E+W

(1) The Chief Executive is not required by the apprenticeship offer to secure the provision of facilities for apprenticeship training at a particular level for a person who—

(a) has already completed an English apprenticeship in relation to an apprenticeship framework at that level, or

(b) holds an apprenticeship certificate at that level.

(2) For the purposes of this section apprenticeship training is at a particular level if it might reasonably be expected to lead to the issue of an apprenticeship certificate at that level.

(3) The following provisions of Chapter 1 of Part 1 apply for the purposes of this section—

• section 1 (meaning of “completing an English apprenticeship”);

• section 12 (meaning of apprenticeship framework and level of an apprenticeship framework).

(4) In this section “apprenticeship certificate” means an apprenticeship certificate issued under section 3 or 4.

(5) A reference in this section to an apprenticeship certificate at any level includes a reference to a certificate or other evidence (including a certificate awarded or evidence provided by a person outside England) which appears to the Chief Executive to be evidence of experience and attainment at a comparable or higher level.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 83A, 83B inserted (1.9.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), ss. 69(2), 82(3); S.I. 2012/1087, art. 3