{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-232",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-232.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "section/232",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "232",
  "heading": "Orders and regulations.",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers to make orders or regulations under this Act (other than under any of the excepted provisions) shall be exercised by statutory instrument.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) above the excepted provisions are section 157, paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 7 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 9.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A statutory instrument containing—\n(a) an Order in Council made under section 207 of this Act which amends or repeals any provision of an Act; or\n(b) any order or regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Act, other than an order under section . . . . . ., 214, 216, . . . or 236;\nshall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(4ZA) A statutory instrument containing any order or regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under this Act, other than an order under section 124A, 125, 214 or 216, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of Senedd Cymru.\n(4ZB) A statutory instrument containing an order made by the Welsh Ministers under section 124A or 125 of this Act may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, Senedd Cymru.\n(4ZC) For the purposes of subsection (4ZA) above, any order or regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under this Act includes any order or regulations made under a power that is expressed as a power of the Secretary of State and has been transferred to the Welsh Ministers.\n(4A) The power of the Office for Students to make an order under section 214 or 216 is exercisable by statutory instrument; and the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 is to apply to such an instrument as if the order had been made by a Minister of the Crown.\n(5) Orders or regulations under this Act may make different provision for different cases or circumstances and may contain such incidental, supplemental or transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks or the Welsh Ministers think fit or, in the case of orders under section 214 or 216 made by the Office for Students, the Office for Students thinks fit.\n(6) Without prejudice to subsection (5) above, orders under this Act, and regulations under any provision of this Act . . ., may make in relation to Wales provision different from that made in relation to England.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(1) inserted (W.) (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), ss. 138(3)(a), 148(2) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(uu)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(2) substituted (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(1), 583, Sch. 37 Pt. I para. 80(a) (with ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 232(3) repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(1)(2), 583, Sch. 37 Pt. I para. 80(b), Sch. 38 Pt. I (with ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(4)(b) repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(1)(2), 583, Sch. 37 Pt. I para. 80(c), Sch. 38 Pt. I (with ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(4)(b) repealed (1.1.1994) by 1993 c. 35, ss. 307(1)(3), Sch. 19 para. 138(b)(ii), Sch. 21 Pt. I; S.I. 1993/3106, art. 4, Sch. 1 Appendix (amended by S.I. 1994/436, art. 2),"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 232(4)(b) repealed (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 56(c), Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 232(4ZA)-(4ZC) inserted (W.) (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), ss. 138(3)(b), 148(2) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(uu)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 232(4A) inserted (1.4.2018) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), ss. 54(14), 124(5) (with ss. 54(16), 55); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(5) substituted (W.) (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), ss. 138(3)(c), 148(2) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(uu)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(5) inserted (1.4.2018) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), ss. 54(15), 124(5) (with ss. 54(16), 55); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 232(6) repealed (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 30, s. 44(2), Sch. 3 para. 6, Sch.4 (with s. 42(8)); S.I. 1998/2215, art.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 232(4) restricted (1.9.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 241(4); S.I. 1994/2038, art. 3(1), Sch. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/section/232",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:49.452107+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."
}