4.—(1) This article applies where, immediately before 21 September 2015 a person is recognised under section 30(1)(e) of the 1997 Act(1) in respect of the award or authentication of a specified relevant qualification or description of relevant qualification.
(2) From 21 September 2015, the person is to be treated as recognised under section 8 (general recognition of an awarding body) of the Act.
(3) But if the person has informed the Welsh Ministers in writing before that date that the person does not wish to be recognised under section 8 in respect of a qualification or description of qualification in respect of which the body is not recognised under section 30(1)(e) of the 1997 Act, the person is to be treated as having specified that qualification or description of qualification under section 8(2) of the Act.
Section 30(1) was substituted by the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), Schedule 12, paragraphs 12 and 15(1) and (2).