{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/21",
  "legislation_title": "Learning and Skills Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/learning-and-skills-act-2000",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Research and information.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The Welsh Ministers must establish systems for collecting information which is designed to secure that their decisions with regard to education and training are made on a sound basis.\n(6) The Welsh Ministers may secure the provision of facilities for providing information, advice or guidance about education or training or connected matters (including employment).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 40(1)-(4) omitted (1.4.2006) by virtue of National Council for Education and Training for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3238), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 60(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (19.1.2011) by Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1), s. 49(2), Sch. paras. 2, 3; S.I. 2011/97, art. 2(1)(p)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 40(5) substituted (19.1.2011) by Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 1), s. 49(2), Sch. para. 9; S.I. 2011/97, art. 2(1)(p)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 154; s. 40 in force for W. at 1.4.2001 by S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2, Sch. Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2022/1",
      "affecting_title": "Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2022/1",
      "affecting_title": "Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/21/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:54.606851+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."
}