213.Part V of this Act both confers new functions on the Secretary of State and amends existing functions for the provision of education and training and connected purposes. The majority of such provisions so far as they relate to Wales are the responsibility of the National Assembly under the terms of the devolution settlement. Section 150 accordingly secures that where a function conferred on the Secretary of State by Part V the reference to the Secretary of State should be interpreted as a reference to the National Assembly enabling it to exercise that function in relation to Wales. Where a function is conferred by amendment to another Act and that Act has already been subject to a transfer of functions order devolving the functions of that Act to the National Assembly under the provisions of section 22 of the Government of Wales Act 1998, the earlier transfer of functions shall be regarded as having transferred the new function conferred by the amendment in this Act
214.Subsection (4) sets out exceptions to these arrangements. The references to the Secretary of State in the sections and amendments listed in subsection (4) should not be interpreted also as a reference to the National Assembly because in each case the responsibility for those provisions is not the responsibility of the National Assembly under the terms of the devolution settlement.
Commentary on Sections Part V - Miscellaneous and General Section 150: Wales