{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-1973/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-1973/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/50",
  "legislation_title": "Employment And Training Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-training-act-1973",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Power of Secretary of State to arrange for provision of careers services for others.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State shall have power to secure the provision of relevant services, or any description of relevant services, for assisting persons other than those undergoing relevant education, or any description of such persons, to decide—\n(a) what employments, having regard to their capabilities, are or will be suitable for and available to them, and\n(b) what training or education is or will be required by and available to them in order to fit them for those employments,\nand for assisting those persons to obtain such employments, training and education.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 8-10 substituted (30.11.1993) by 1993 c. 19, s.45; S.I. 1993/2503, art. 2(2), Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 8-10 substituted (30.11.1993) by 1993 c. 19, s. 45; S.I. 1993/2503, art. 2(2), Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 9 functions made exercisable concurrently (12.10.2007) by Transfer of Functions (Equality) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2914), arts. 1(2), 3(4)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/50/section/9",
    "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."
}