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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

Apprenticeship certificates: England

46.Sections 3 to 6 make provision about apprenticeship certificates, and specify when an apprenticeship certificate must, or may, be issued to a person.

Section 3: Duty to issue: England

47.Subsection (1) places a duty on the “English certifying authority” to issue an apprenticeship certificate to a person who appears to the certifying authority to have completed an English apprenticeship in relation to the apprenticeship framework and meets the other requirements within the section. (The “English certifying authority” is defined in section 6 as being the Chief Executive of Skills Funding.)

Section 4: Power to issue: England

48.This section gives discretion to the English certifying authority to issue an apprenticeship certificate to a person who applies to it who is not within section 1. This may apply to a person who is not within section 1 but who has successfully completed all the requirements of an apprenticeship framework for England.

Section 5: Issue by the English certifying authority: supplementary

49.Subsection (1) makes provision for English certifying authority to charge a fee for issuing an apprenticeship certificate where authorised to do so by the Secretary of State in accordance with the regulations. Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations to enable the English certifying authority to supply duplicate certificates, and subsection (3) specifies that these regulations may also include provision for the English certifying authority to charge a fee for that service.

Section 6: The English certifying authority

50.This section provides that the “English certifying authority” is the Chief Executive of Skills Funding. The Government’s intention is that the Chief Executive of Skills Funding will delegate this responsibility to the Chief Executive of the National Apprenticeship Service (see Notes to section 82), who may sub-delegate it to sub-contractors.

Section 7: Duty to issue: Wales, Section 8: Power to issue: Wales, Section 9: Issue by the Welsh certifying authority: supplementary, Section 10: The Welsh certifying authority

51.Sections 7 to 10 make provision about the issue of apprenticeship certificates in Wales. In particular, Section 10 provides that the certifying authority for apprenticeships in Wales will be persons designated for that purpose by the Welsh Ministers or the Welsh Ministers themselves.

Section 11: Contents of apprenticeship certificate

52.This section applies to England and Wales. It sets out the required contents of an apprenticeship certificate whether issued under sections 3, 4, 7 or 8.

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