Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 1 Ch. ZA1 inserted (1.4.2017) by Enterprise Act 2016 (c. 12), s. 44(5), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2(a)
(1)So far as relevant, and subject to any notice given by the Secretary of State under subsection (2), in performing its functions the IfA must have regard to—
(a)the reasonable requirements of industry, commerce, finance, the professions and other employers regarding education and training within the IfA's remit;
(b)the reasonable requirements of persons who may wish to undertake education and training within the IfA's remit;
(c)the need to ensure that education and training within the IfA's remit is of an appropriate quality;
(d)the need to ensure that education and training within the IfA's remit represents good value in relation to financial resources provided out of public funds;
(e)any information provided to it by any person designated by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this paragraph.
(2)The Secretary of State may give a notice in writing to the IfA setting out other matters to which the IfA must have regard when performing its functions.
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(5)The IfA must perform its functions efficiently and effectively.
(6)For the purposes of this section, education or training is within the IfA's remit if the education or training is or may be provided in the course of an approved English apprenticeship.
(7)Subsection (1) and any notice under subsection (2) do not apply in relation to functions that are—
(a)delegated by directions under section ZA4, or
(b)conferred by regulations under section ZA5,
unless the directions or regulations provide for them to apply in relation to the functions.
(8)Where directions or regulations so provide, the directions or regulations—
(a)may provide for any education or training to which the functions relate to be treated as within the IfA's remit for the purposes of this section;
(b)may provide for subsection (1) and any notice under subsection (2) to apply in relation to the functions with such modifications as the Secretary of State thinks fit.
(9)The Secretary of State must—
(a)publish in such manner as the Secretary of State thinks fit any notice under subsection (2), and
(b)lay a copy of it before Parliament.]
Textual Amendments
F2S. ZA2(3)(4) omitted (8.11.2017) by virtue of Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c. 19), s. 47(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(2); S.I. 2017/1055, reg. 2(b)(iii)