Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019

Amendment of section 48 of Principal Act (Arrangement between providers and awarding bodies other than the Authority)

19. Section 48 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)(b), by the substitution of “an award included within the Framework” for “recognised within the Framework”, and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(3) For the period of 5 years from the commencement of section 23 of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019, paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall not apply to an arrangement referred to in that subsection if the arrangement has been entered into before the commencement of that section 23 .”.