Qualifications (Education and Training) Act, 1999

Assistance to find alternative programme.

44.—(1) Where a provider of a programme of education and training to which section 43 applies ceases to provide the programme concerned, the relevant body shall make all reasonable efforts to assist the learners concerned to find an appropriate programme of education and training with another provider which will enable them to complete that education and training.

(2) Subsection (1) applies without prejudice to the duties and obligations of the provider of a programme of education and training to the learners concerned.

(3) In this section “relevant body” means whichever of the Further Education and Training Awards Council or the Higher Education and Training Awards Council made or recognised an award or was to make or recognise an award in respect of the programme of education and training concerned.