The Chief Executive of Skills Funding (Strategy for Greater Manchester) Order 2010

Made: 1st March 2010

Laid before Parliament: 4th March 2010

Coming into force: 1st April 2010

The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 112(1) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Chief Executive of Skills Funding (Strategy for Greater Manchester) Order 2010 and comes into force on 1st April 2010.

• (2) In this Order—

• “the Act” means the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009;

• “the Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of Skills Funding;

• “the Commission” means the Commission for the New Economy Limited [^f00002];

• “Greater Manchester” means the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.

Specified area and body

2

For the purposes of section 112(1) of the Act—

• (a) Greater Manchester is specified as an area; and

• (b) the Commission is specified as the body in relation to that area.

Specified functions of the Chief Executive

3

For the purposes of section 112(1) of the Act the specified functions of the Chief Executive are—

• (a) the duty of the Chief Executive in section 86(1)(a) of the Act to secure the provision of reasonable facilities for education suitable to the requirements of persons who are aged 19 or over, other than persons aged under 25 who are subject to learning difficulty assessment;

• (b) the duty of the Chief Executive in section 86(1)(b) to secure the provision of reasonable facilities for education suitable to the requirements of persons who are subject to adult detention;

• (c) the duty of the Chief Executive in section 86(1)(c) of the Act to secure the provision of reasonable facilities for training suitable to the requirements of persons within section 86(1)(a) and (b);

• (d) the power of the Chief Executive in section 110(6) of the Act to secure the provision of facilities and services for providing information, advice or guidance about education or training or connected matters (including employment).

Signed

Kevin Brennan — Minister for Further Education, Skills, Apprenticeships and Consumer Affairs — Department for Business, Innovation and Skills — 1st March 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order specifies, for the purposes of section 112 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, the Commission for the New Economy Limited as the body responsible for formulating and keeping under review a strategy for the area of Greater Manchester (regulation 2). The strategy must set out how the functions of the Chief Executive of Skills Funding specified in regulation 3 are to be carried out in that area.

An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the third sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Moorfoot, Sheffield S1 4PQ and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument on the OPSI website.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2009 c.22.

[^f00002]: A company limited by guarantee registered at Companies House (company no. 5678007); it was incorporated under the name of Manchester Enterprises Limited and its name was changed by written resolution on 29th July 2009.