{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-1998/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-1998/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/38",
  "legislation_title": "Government of Wales Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-1998",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales or Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru.",
  "text": "(1) The provision of funding for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales or Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru (“the Chief Inspector”) shall be the responsibility of the Welsh Ministers .\n(1A) But the Welsh Ministers are not responsible for providing funding to the Chief Inspector for the discharge of the Chief Inspector’s functions under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 so far as they relate to education or training that is funded or otherwise secured by the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research.\n(2) What subsection (1) requires of the Welsh Ministers is that they shall provide such funding for the Chief Inspector as they consider appropriate.\n(3) In deciding what funding they consider appropriate to provide for the Chief Inspector, the Welsh Ministers shall have regard in particular to what they consider the Chief Inspector needs to spend in order to discharge his functions effectively.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers shall before the beginning of each financial year consult the Chief Inspector about the funding they are to provide for him in that financial year . . .\n(4A) The Welsh Ministers shall—\n(a) approve such part (or parts) of the plan prepared by the Chief Inspector under section 67 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 as relate to functions in respect of which they are required to provide funding under this section, and\n(b) determine the amount of the funding they are to provide under this section in accordance with the plan as approved by them .\n(4B) But before they give their approval under subsection (4A)(a), the Welsh Ministers may require the Chief Inspector to modify the plan.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Schedule 6 (which makes further provision about the Chief Inspector) has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sidenote and s. 104(1) substituted (1.1.2001) by 2000 c. 21, s. 73(3)(a); S.I. 2000/3230, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 104 substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(2)} (with Sch. 11), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 104(1A) inserted (E.W.) (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), ss. 68(6)(a), 148(2) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 104(2) substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(3)(a)} (with Sch. 11), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(2) substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(3)(b)} (with Sch. 11 para. 22), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(3) substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(4)} (with Sch. 11), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(4) substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(5)} (with Sch. 11), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(4) repealed (1.1.2001) by 2000 c. 21, ss. 149, 153, Sch. 9 para. 92(2), Sch. 11; S.I. 2000/3230, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 104(4A)(4B) inserted (1.1.2001) by 2000 c. 21, s. 149, Sch. 9 para. 92(3); S.I. 2000/3230, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 104(4A)(a) substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), ss. 68(6)(b), 148(2) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(4A) substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(6)(b)} (with Sch. 11), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(4A) substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(6)(a)} (with Sch. 11), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in s. 104(4B) substituted by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, {Sch. 10 para. 43(7)} (with Sch. 11), the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(5) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "S. 104(5) repealed by the Government of Wales Act 2006, (c. 32), ss. 160, 161, 163, Sch. 10 para. 43(7), {Sch. 12} (with Sch. 11), the repealing provision coming into force immediately after the end of \"the initial period\" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(4)(c)(d)(5) (subject to s. 161(6)) of the amending Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 104(4) amended (1.1.2001) by 2000 c. 21, s. 87(1); S.I. 2000/3230, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 104 wholly in force at 1.7.1999; s. 104 not in force at Royal Assent; s. 104(6) in force for certain purposes at 1.5.1999 and s. 104 wholly in force at 1.7.1999 by S.I. 1999/1290, arts. 3, 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/38/section/104",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:21.754966+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."
}