Employment and Training Act 1973

12Ancillary and transitional provisions

(1)It shall be the duty of the Commission in exercising any power to select disabled persons for courses of training and other courses or any power to submit for engagements the names of persons registered as handicapped by disablement, and of the Secretary of State and any other person in exercising such a power in pursuance of section 3(4) of this Act, to give preference, so far as it or he considers it consistent with the efficient exercise of that power, to persons of the classes specified in section 16 of the [1944 c. 10.] Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 (which specifies the classes of ex-service men and women to whom preference is to be given in pursuance of that section); and in this subsection " disabled person " and " person registered as handicapped by disablement" have the same meanings as in that Act.

(2)It shall be the duty—

(a)of the Commission and of each local education authority to furnish the Secretary of State with such information in its possession as the Secretary of State may specify as being information required by him in connection with the determination of questions relating to contributions or benefit under the National Insurance Acts 1965 to 1972 or benefit under the [1965 c. 52.] National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 or the [1967 c. 34.] Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1967 ;

(b)of the Commission and of each local education authority to furnish the Supplementary Benefits Commission with such information in its possession as the Secretary of State may specify as being information required by the latter Commission in connection with the determination of questions relating to benefit within the meaning of the [1966 c. 20.] Ministry of Social Security Act 1966;

(c)subject to the following subsection, of each local education authority to comply with any directions of the Secretary of State requiring it—

(i)to issue, to persons under the age of eighteen who apply for them, such documents relating to the contributions aforesaid as may be specified in the directions, and

(ii)to furnish the Secretary of State with such information as may be so specified with respect to persons to whom documents are issued in pursuance of the directions;

and any information falling to be furnished in pursuance of this subsection shall be furnished in such a form and at such times as the Secretary of State may direct.

(3)If the Commission and a local education authority agree that the duty imposed on the authority by virtue of paragraph (c) of the preceding subsection shall be performed by the Commission on behalf of the authority, that paragraph shall, while the agreement is in force, have effect in relation to that duty as if for references to the local education authority there were substituted references to the Commission; but the Secretary of State may by order provide that that paragraph and this subsection shall cease to have effect on a date specified in the order.

(4)The Commission or an industrial training board may make to any person payments by way of travelling and subsistence allowances and compensation for loss of remunerative time which are approved by the Secretary of State and which the Commission or board considers are appropriate in connection with the person's attendance at any examination connected with a claim for payments from the Commission or board in pursuance of subsection (3) of the preceding section; and the Secretary of State may make payments by way of travelling and subsistence allowances and compensation for loss of remunerative time in connection with a claim for payments by him in pursuance of that subsection.

(5)No limitation imposed on the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland by the [1920 c. 67.] Government of Ireland Act 1920 shall preclude that Parliament from making laws for purposes similar to any of the purposes of this Act.

(6)If the term of office of any person as a member of a Youth Employment Committee would apart from this subsection expire on or after the day when this subsection comes into force but before the date when the Committee is abolished, the term shall by virtue of this subsection be extended so as to expire on that date.