What section 27 does
Provides for supporting Deputy and Assistant Apprenticeship Advisers.
Connected instrument: Adviser notifications
Finin2min practical reading
- Identify the apprentice category, trade, establishment jurisdiction and applicable portal before applying the provision.
- Separate statutory apprenticeship from internships, probation, traineeships and ordinary employment.
- Do not treat scheme reimbursement as a substitute for the employer’s underlying statutory obligations.
- Preserve the contract, approvals, portal trail and training evidence as one auditable file.
Employer control and evidence pack
- Executed/registered contract and portal acknowledgement
- Training plan, attendance/work diary and supervisor records
- Stipend bank/DBT evidence where relevant
- Adviser approval, correspondence or order where the section requires it
Statutory text extract
Extracted from the bundled official/consolidated source. For sections amended in 2026, the current overlay above controls over older consolidated wording.
27. Deputy and Assistant Apprenticeship Advisers.—(1) The Government1[may appoint suitable
persons as Additional, Joint, Regional, Deputy and Assistant Apprenticeship Advisers] to assist the
Apprenticeship Adviser in the performance of his functions.
(2)2[Every Additional, Joint, Regional, Deputy or Assistant Apprenticeship Adviser] shall, subject to
the control of the Apprenticeship Adviser, perform such functions as may be assigned to him by the
Apprenticeship Adviser.Compliance consequence
Failure should be tested against sections 30, 31 and 31A as in force from 22 June 2026, alongside contract termination/compensation consequences and any portal or scheme action.