{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021/section-67",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021/section-67.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2021/4",
  "legislation_title": "Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "section/67",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "67",
  "heading": "Local authorities' duty to facilitate the performance of functions",
  "text": "(1) A local authority in Wales must exercise its functions with a view to facilitating the performance of functions, by persons within subsection (2), that are conferred on them by or under Parts 2 to 4.\n(2) The persons are—\n(a) the head teacher of a maintained school or a maintained nursery school that is maintained by the local authority;\n(b) the governing body of a maintained school or a maintained nursery school that is maintained by the local authority;\n(c) a provider of funded non-maintained nursery education secured by the local authority;\n(d) the teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit maintained by the local authority;\n(e) the management committee for a pupil referral unit maintained by the local authority.\n(3) Subsection (4) applies where a local authority makes arrangements under section 19A of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) for the provision of education to a child otherwise than at⁠—\n(a) a maintained school or maintained nursery school that is maintained by the local authority, or\n(b) a pupil referral unit that is maintained by the local authority.\n(4) The authority must exercise its functions with a view to facilitating the performance of their relevant functions by persons within subsection (5).\n(5) The persons are—\n(a) where the child is provided with the education at a maintained school or a maintained nursery school that is maintained by another local authority, the head teacher and governing body of the school;\n(b) where the child is provided with the education at a pupil referral unit that is maintained by another local authority, the teacher in charge of the unit, the management committee for the unit (if there is one) and that authority;\n(c) where the education is provided for the child otherwise than at a maintained school or pupil referral unit, any person who provides it.\n(6) The “relevant functions” of a person within subsection (5) are the functions conferred on that person, by or under Parts 2 to 4, in respect of the education.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 67 in force at 1.9.2022 by S.I. 2022/652, art. 4(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/4/section/67",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:54.961717+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}