56Accreditation authority—meaning

56 Accreditation authority—meaning

56 Accreditation authority—meaning

(1) For the purposes of this Act, an accreditation authority means a body corporate for the time being approved by the Secretary under this Part to exercise the functions of an accreditation authority.

Note.

Section 110 provides that the Secretary may exercise the functions of an accreditation authority.

(2) A reference in this Act to an accreditation authority, with respect to any function of an accreditation authority, includes a reference to a body corporate approved by the Secretary to exercise the functions of an accreditation authority only if the accreditation authority is approved to exercise the function concerned.

(3) An accreditation authority that grants an accreditation to a person under this Act is the regulating accreditation authority with respect to that accreditation.

(4) The Secretary may, in writing, direct an accreditation authority to be the regulating accreditation authority with respect to an existing accreditation on and from a specified day and on that day—

(a) the accreditation authority becomes the regulating accreditation authority with respect to that accreditation for the remaining period of that accreditation, and

(b) the accreditation authority that was the regulating accreditation authority with respect to that accreditation immediately before that day ceases to be the regulating accreditation authority.

(5) A direction of the Secretary under this section may specify particular accreditations or all accreditations belonging to a particular class.