{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-and-training-act-2007/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-and-training-act-2007/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/25",
  "legislation_title": "Further Education and Training Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-and-training-act-2007",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Qualifications of principals of further education institutions",
  "text": "(1) Section 137 of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) (power of Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers to make regulations requiring principals of further education institutions to have specified qualifications) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) Regulations under subsection (1) may limit the period of time during which a person may serve as the principal of an institution in reliance on subsection (2).”\n(3) In subsection (3) (regulations made for England or Wales not to apply to persons already appointed to institutions)—\n(a) for “under subsection (1)” substitute “ made under subsection (1) by the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales ”, and\n(b) after “an institution” insert “ in England or Wales ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 23.12.2007 for E. by S.I. 2007/3505, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/25/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:33.504427+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."
}