{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-1973/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-1973/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/50",
  "legislation_title": "Employment And Training Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-1973",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Additional Powers of Secretary of State.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The Secretary of State may—\n(a) appoint such persons as he thinks fit for the purpose of advising him with respect to the performance of any of the functions conferred or imposed on him by sections 2, 8 to 10 and 12 of this Act; and by virtue of this Act, excluding the following section; and\n(b) pay to any person appointed in pursuance of the preceding paragraph such subsistence and travelling allowances and such compensation for loss of remunerative time as the Secretary of State may determine with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service.\n(3) The Secretary of State may arrange for or make payments in respect of—\n(a) research into any matter connected with any of his functions relating to employment, unemployment or training for employment . . .\n(b) the dissemination of information derived from such research.\n(4) The Secretary of State shall not make any payments in pursuance of subsection . . . (3) of this section unless the amounts of the payments and the terms on which they are made are approved by the Treasury.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5(1) repealed by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33(2), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(2)(a) substituted (1.4.1994 in relation to England and Scotland and 1.4.1995 for all other purposes) by 1993 c. 19, s. 49(2); S.I. 1993/2503, art. 2(3), Sch.3."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33(2), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 functions made exercisable concurrently or jointly with the Welsh Ministers by 2006 c. 32, Sch. 3A para. 1 (as inserted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), s. 71(4), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(p))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/50/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:53.333632+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."
}