Part 4U.K.[F1Apprenticeships and adult education and training: role of Secretary of State]

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 4 title substituted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(g), Sch. 14 para. 31(a)

Chapter 1E+W[F2Apprenticeships and adult education and training]

Textual Amendments

F2Pt. 4 Ch. 1 title substituted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(g), Sch. 14 para. 31(b)

Education and training for persons aged 19 or over etc.E+W

87Learning aims for persons aged 19 or over: provision of facilitiesE+W

(1)[F3The Secretary of State must secure the provision of such facilities as the Secretary of State considers appropriate] for relevant education or training for persons falling within subsection (3) which is suitable to their requirements.

(2)Relevant education or training is education or vocational training provided by means of a course of study for a qualification to which paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 applies.

(3)The persons falling within this subsection are persons who—

(a)are aged 19 or over, and are not persons aged under 25 [F4for whom an EHC plan is maintained] ,

(b)do not have the qualification in question or one (including one awarded by a person outside England) which appears to the [F5Secretary of State] to be at a comparable or higher level, and

(c)satisfy such conditions as may be specified in regulations.

F6(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F7(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6)For the purposes of this section—

  • education” includes full-time and part-time education;

  • training” includes full-time and part-time training.

Textual Amendments

F3Words in s. 87(1) substituted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(g), Sch. 14 para. 10(2)

F5Words in s. 87(3)(b) substituted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(g), Sch. 14 para. 10(3)

F6S. 87(4) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(g), Sch. 14 para. 10(4)

F7S. 87(5) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(g), Sch. 14 para. 10(4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I1S. 87 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/303, art. 3, Sch. 2 (with arts. 9-11)