# Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, Section 12: Apprenticeship frameworks: interpretation

Extent: E+W

(1) In this Chapter, “apprenticeship framework” means a specification of requirements, for the purpose of the issue of apprenticeship certificates, that satisfies subsection (2).
(2) The requirements specified must—
(a) be at a particular level stated in the specification, and
(b) relate to a particular skill, trade or occupation included in an apprenticeship sector stated in the specification.
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(4) In this Chapter, “recognised Welsh framework” means an apprenticeship framework issued under section 19(1) from which recognition has not been withdrawn under section 19(2).
(5) For the purposes of this Chapter—
(a) an apprenticeship framework is at the level of the requirements stated in it;
(b) an apprenticeship framework relates to the apprenticeship sector stated in it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/22/section/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/apprenticeships-skills-children-and-learning-act-2009/section-12
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