Legal background
The legislation relating to the existing policy is set out in a combination of primary and subordinate legislation. The current provisions are in the following primary legislation and related subordinate legislation:
Company Directors’ Disqualification Act 1986
Further and Higher Education Act 1992
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (as amended by the Deregulation Act 2015 and the Enterprise Act 2016)
Insolvency Act 1986.
	Further legal background is included in the commentary on the individual provisions.