(1)Each of the following may give the Commission information for the purposes of the exercise of any of the Commission’s functions—
(a)Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales;
(b)the Education Workforce Council;
(c)Qualifications Wales;
(d)the Secretary of State;
(e)the Office for Students;
(f)a body designated under Schedule 3 to exercise the Commission’s functions under section 54 (assessment of quality of higher education);
(g)the person designated by the Welsh Ministers under section 13 of the Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8) as the designated operator of a scheme for the review of student complaints;
(h)a person specified in arrangements made by the Welsh Ministers under section 23(4) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30) to exercise on their behalf functions exercisable by virtue of regulations under section 22 of that Act (arrangements for giving financial support to students);
(i)a person specified in arrangements made by the Welsh Ministers under section 14 of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) (financial assistance for education and children etc.), which, in accordance with section 17 of that Act, provide for the person to give assistance or exercise other functions relating to assistance;
(j)a person providing services to one or more tertiary education providers in Wales that are institutions within the higher education sector relating to applications for admission on to higher education courses provided by them;
(k)a person specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.
(2)The Commission may give a person listed in subsection (1) and any other person it considers appropriate information about any matter in relation to which it has a function.
Commencement Information
I1S. 132 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 148(2)
I2S. 132(1)(a)-(e)(g)-(k)(2) in force at 4.9.2023 by S.I. 2023/919, art. 2(r)