The Education (Higher Education Corporations) (No. 4) Order 1988

Made: 23rd December 1988

Laid before Parliament: 3rd January 1989

Coming into force: 24th January 1989

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 122(1), 126(2) and 232(5) of, and paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 7 to, the Education Reform Act 1988[^f00001] the Secretary of State for Education and Science, having consulted in accordance with the said paragraph 4 such associations of local authorities as appeared to him to be concerned, hereby makes the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Education (Higher Education Corporations) (No. 4) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 24th January 1989.

2

There shall be established, as from 24th January 1989, bodies corporate by the names given in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order to conduct, as from 1st April 1989, the institutions specified opposite in column 2 being institutions which appear to the Secretary of State to satisfy the criteria set out in section 122(1) of the Education Reform Act 1988 and whose respective full-time equivalent enrolment numbers for courses of higher education appear to him to exceed 350.

3

1st April 1989 is hereby appointed as the transfer date for each such corporation for the purposes of section 126 of that Act.

4

• (1) In relation to each such corporation the local authority specified opposite in column 3 of the said Schedule shall be the nominating authority for the number of initial nominee members specified opposite in column 4.

• (2) In this article “the nominating authority” means the local authority entitled to nominate one or more local authority nominees as initial nominee members of a corporation.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Kenneth Baker — Secretary of State for Education and Science — 23rd December 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision for the establishment of bodies corporate to conduct the institutions specified in column 2 of the Schedule hereto. The bodies corporate are established by virtue of paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 to the Education Reform Act 1988 by the names given in column 1 on 24th January 1989 to prepare themselves for the conduct of those institutions from 1st April 1989 which is appointed as the transfer date, defined in section 123(2) of that Act as the date for transfer of local education authority property, rights and liabilities to those corporations. The Order also specifies, in relation to each such corporation, the local authority or authorities able to nominate one or more local authority nominees to become members of the corporation.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 40.