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Amendment of section 45 of Principal Act (Determination of application for validation of programme of education and training)
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17. Section 45 of the Principal Act is amended:
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(a) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (1):
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“(1A) A validation under subsection (1) of a programme of education and training shall have effect for such period as the Authority determines and specifies in the validation, but subsection (1B) applies so as to provide that, in the circumstances specified in that subsection and in relation to the learner there referred to, a programme of education and training shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be validated notwithstanding the fact that the foregoing period has expired.
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(1B) In circumstances in which a learner—
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(a) is enrolled on a programme of education and training before the expiry of the period specified, under subsection (1A), in the validation with respect to that programme, and
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(b) completes, in accordance with its terms, that programme after that expiry,
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that programme shall, in relation to that learner, be deemed to be validated for the purposes of this Act notwithstanding the expiry of the period so specified.”,
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and
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(b) in subsection (3)(c), by the deletion of “in respect of arrangements for the protection of enrolled learners”.
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