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Mr Siôn Simon

455

Clause  138,  page  78,  line  24,  leave out ‘or 137 in relation to a’ and insert ‘, 131 or

137 in relation to the’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment adds Ofqual’s functions under clause 131 (power to set general conditions) to the

list of functions which Ofqual must exercise for the purposes of implementing a determination

made under clause 138(1).

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

456

Clause  138,  page  78,  line  25,  leave out ‘to which a determination under this section

applies’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequent on amendment 458.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

457

Clause  138,  page  78,  line  30,  leave out ‘or will’ and insert ‘, will be or may

reasonably be expected to’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 436.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

458

Clause  138,  page  78,  line  31,  at end insert—

‘( )	A determination made under subsection (1) may be amended or revoked by the

Secretary of State; and subsection (4) applies to the amendment of a

determination as it applies to the making of a determination.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment gives the Secretary of State the power to amend or revoke a determination made

under clause 138(1). If a determination is amended, it must be published as revised and notice of

it given to Ofqual.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

459

Clause  139,  page  78,  line  33,  leave out ‘regulated qualification’ and insert

‘particular form of a qualification in respect of which it is recognised’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment and amendment 462 ensure that where a body is recognised in respect of a qual­

ification which is relevant for 2008 Act purposes, it must assign guided learning hours to each in­

dividual form of the qualification awarded by it, such as a particular version of GCSE English.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

460

Clause  139,  page  78,  line  35,  leave out ‘regulated’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment corrects a misuse of the term “regulated qualification” and clarifies that whether

a qualification is relevant for 2008 Act purposes is to be determined in relation to the qualification

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as a whole and not in relation to individual forms of the qualification.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

461

Clause  139,  page  78,  line  38,  leave out ‘regulated’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 460. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

462

Clause  139,  page  78,  line  40,  after ‘to’ insert ‘the particular form of’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 459.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

463

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  1,  leave out ‘regulated’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 460. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

464

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  3,  leave out ‘most recently published’ and insert ‘then in

force’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment ensures it is the criteria for assignment of a number of hours of guided learning

which are in force for the time being that are applicable for the purposes of this section. Those

criteria may not come into force immediately when published.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

465

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  5,  leave out ‘regulated’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 460. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

466

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  7,  leave out paragraph (b) and insert—

‘(b)	in respect of a qualification which the body has determined is relevant for

those purposes, a number of hours of guided learning to assign to a form

of the qualification.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment and amendment 475 are technical drafting amendments which recognise that

whether a qualification is relevant for 2008 Act purposes is a matter which is to be determined by

the relevant recognised body. This amendment is also consequent on amendments 459 and 462.

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Mr Siôn Simon

467

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  9,  leave out ‘Ofqual publishes revised criteria’ and insert

‘revised criteria come into force’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment ensures that the duty of a recognised body to review a determination under clause

139 applies when revised criteria for making those determinations come into force (rather than

when they are published).

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

468

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  17,  leave out ‘regulated’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 460. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

469

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  20,  leave out ‘the qualification’ and insert ‘a form of the

qualification awarded or authenticated by the recognised body’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See the Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 459. This amendment is consequent on

that amendment and amendment 462.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

470

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  22,  leave out from ‘having’ to end of line 24 and insert

‘determined to assign that number of hours of guided learning to that form of the

qualification’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment achieves the technical change referred to in the Member’s explanatory statement

for amendment 466. It also ensures that any determination made by Ofqual to assign guided learn­

ing hours to a form of a qualification applies as if made by the relevant recognised body for all

purposes.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

471

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  25,  leave out ‘regulated’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 460. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

472

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  30,  after ‘to’ insert ‘a form of’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 459. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment and amendment 462.

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Mr Siôn Simon

473

Clause  139,  page  79,  line  33,  after ‘obtain’ insert ‘that form of’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 459. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment and amendment 462.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

474

Clause  140,  page  79,  line  45,  leave out ‘regulated’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 460. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

475

Clause  140,  page  80,  line  1,  at beginning insert ‘in respect of a qualification which

a recognised body has determined is relevant for those purposes,’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 466.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

476

Clause  140,  page  80,  leave out line 2 and insert ‘form of the qualification’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 459. The amendment is consequent on that

amendment and amendment 462.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

477

Clause  140,  page  80,  leave out line 4 and insert ‘qualifications or different descriptions

of qualifications.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 460. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

478

Clause  141,  page  80,  line  12,  leave out ‘respect in’ and insert ‘qualifications in

respect of’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 479. This is a drafting amendment conse­

quent on that amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

479

Clause  141,  page  80,  leave out line 13 and insert—

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‘(b)	the forms of those qualifications which are awarded or authenticated

by it,’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment ensures that where an awarding body is recognised in respect of a qualification

Ofqual is under a duty to include on the register details of each particular form of the qualification

which the body awards or authenticates.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

480

Clause  141,  page  80,  line  15,  leave out ‘such qualification’ and insert ‘of those

qualifications’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 479. This is a drafting amendment conse­

quent on that amendment.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

481

Clause  141,  page  80,  line  17,  leave out ‘the qualification’ insert ‘each form of the

qualification awarded or authenticated by it’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 459. This amendment is consequent on that

amendment and amendment 462.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

482

Clause  145,  page  81,  line  38,  at end insert ‘awarded or authenticated by the body’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is intended to ensure that clause 145(2) (which relates to withdrawal of recogni­

tion) applies fully to the situation where the body is recognised to award or authenticate credits in

respect of components of qualifications.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

483

Clause  145,  page  82,  line  17,  leave out ‘a person’ and insert ‘—

(i)	an individual’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment and amendment 484 clarify that review arrangements made under clause 145

may provide for decisions on a review to be made either by an individual who is not a member of

Ofqual or its staff or by a body none of whose members is such a person.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

484

Clause  145,  page  82,  line  18,  at end insert ‘, or

(ii)	a body none of whose members is a member of Ofqual or

Ofqual’s staff.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 483.

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Mr Siôn Simon

485

Clause  146,  page  82,  line  24,  leave out ‘regulated qualifications’ and insert

‘qualifications in respect of which they are recognised’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This technical drafting amendment is one of the changes described in the Member’s explanatory

statement for amendment 431. The amendment clarifies that the qualifications to which Ofqual’s

guidance refers are those that a recognised body awards or authenticates.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

486

Clause  148,  page  83,  line  17,  after ‘of’ insert ‘any of’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This technical amendment and amendment 489 clarify that where the Bill makes provision about

the performance by Ofqual of its qualifications functions the intention is to catch the performance

of any of those functions and not just the performance of all of them.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

487

Clause  149,  page  83,  line  24,  leave out ‘another’ and insert ‘a’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment and amendment 488 are technical drafting amendments, clarifying that Ofqual

itself is not a “qualifications regulator” within the meaning given to that term by clause 149(2)(a).

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

488

Clause  149,  page  83,  line  26,  leave out ‘other’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 487.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

489

Clause  149,  page  83,  line  32,  leave out ‘a qualifications function’ and insert ‘any of

the qualifications functions’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 486.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

490

Clause  170,  page  92,  line  20,  leave out subsection (5).

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment removes an unnecessary power of the QCDA. Clause 170(5) makes explicit pro­

vision for the QCDA to develop, set or administer certain tests or tasks; but the QCDA could in

any case do these things under clause 175.

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491

Clause  171,  page  92,  line  27,  leave out subsections (1) and (2) and insert—

‘(1)	The QCDA must, if requested to do so by Ofqual, assist Ofqual in setting

qualifications criteria which relate to a qualification or description of

qualification in respect of which a determination under section 138(1) has effect.

(2)	The QCDA may—

(a)	assist Ofqual in setting qualifications criteria which do not fall within

subsection (1), and

(b)	provide other assistance, information or advice to Ofqual in connection

with the performance by Ofqual of any of its qualifications functions.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment requires the QCDA, where requested by Ofqual, to assist in setting qualifications

criteria for a qualification covered by a determination under clause 138(1). It also enables the

QCDA generally to assist Ofqual in connection with its qualifications functions, including assist­

ing with setting qualifications criteria in other cases.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

492

Clause  171,  page  92,  line  32,  at end insert—

‘“assistance” does not include financial assistance (and “assist” is to be

construed accordingly);’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment prevents the QCDA from giving financial assistance to Ofqual when providing

assistance to Ofqual under clause 171.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

493

Clause  174,  page  94,  line  3,  leave out ‘which are not regulated assessment

arrangements’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment provides that the QCDA has to keep under review all those assessment arrange­

ments which fall within its remit, including regulated assessment arrangements.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

494

Clause  175,  page  95,  line  13,  at end insert—

‘(9)	The powers under subsections (1) and (2) must not be exercised—

(a)	to assist Ofqual in setting qualifications criteria, or

(b)	to provide other assistance, information or advice to Ofqual in connection

with the performance by Ofqual of any of its qualifications functions.

(10)	In subsection (9) “Ofqual”, “qualifications criteria” and “qualifications

functions” have the same meanings as in section 171.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment clarifies that the powers of the QCDA to provide services and other assistance

under clause 175 do not cover assistance to Ofqual in any circumstances within the scope of clause

171 (which allows the QCDA to provide assistance to Ofqual in connection with that body’s qual­

ifications functions).

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