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Section 140 Further education: generalI1I2

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Regulations under any of sections 136 to 139 may provide that a specified provision of the regulations shall not apply where a specified condition (which may refer to the opinion of a specified person) is satisfied.

(2)

Regulations under any of sections 136 to 139 may impose a function on—

(a)

a F1local authority, or

(b)

the governing body of a further or higher education institution.

(3)

In sections 136 to 139—

  • “education” includes vocational, social, physical and recreational training,

  • “further education institution” means an institution which—

    1. (a)

      provides further education and is maintained by a local authority, or

    2. (b)

      is within the further education sector, and

  • “higher education institution” means an institution which—

    1. (a)

      is within the higher education sector, and

    2. (b)

      receives financial support under section 65 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13) (administration of funds by higher education funding councils).

F2(4)

For the purposes of section 138(3), a university to which an approved plan relates is to be treated (in any case where it would not be so treated but for this subsection) as being a higher education institution.

(5)

“Approved plan”, in subsection (4), has the meaning given in section 7 of the Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 11(2)

F2

S. 140(4)(5) inserted (1.8.2017) by Higher Education (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 1), s. 59(2), Sch. para. 6; S.I. 2017/239, art. 2

Commencement

I1

S. 140 in force at 1.9.2003 for W. by S.I. 2003/1718, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II

I2

S. 140 in force at 6.11.2006 except in relation to W. by S.I. 2006/2895, art. 2