Schedule 2: Transfers of Property and Staff to Qualifications Wales
140.This Schedule enables the Welsh Ministers to transfer property, rights, liabilities and staff to Qualifications Wales through a transfer scheme or schemes. The Welsh Ministers must lay the scheme(s) before the National Assembly for Wales as provided in paragraph 5.
141.Paragraph 1(3) sets out a non-exhaustive list of the additional provisions that may be made in the scheme, including creating rights and imposing liabilities, providing for matters transferred to have a continuing effect, and to make provision which is the same as or similar to a provision made by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 in circumstances where those regulations do not apply.
142.Paragraph 2 allows for a scheme to be modified by agreement and for such modifications to be back-dated to the original date of the scheme.
143.Paragraph 3 provides clarification about how the employment of individuals in the civil service is to be treated for the purposes of a transfer under a scheme to Qualifications Wales.
144.Paragraph 4 provides for the meanings of defined terms appearing in this Schedule.