Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1976

The Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) Order 1991

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1991 No. 1976

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) Order 1991

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 122(1), 126(2) and 232(5) and (6) of, and paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 7 to, the Education Reform Act 1988^[1] the Secretary of State for Wales, having consulted in accordance with the said paragraph 4 such associations of local authorities as appeared to him to be concerned and obtained the consent of the local education authority concerned, South Glamorgan County Council, to the making of this Order insofar as it relates to the Welsh College of Music and Drama pursuant to section 122(2) of the said 1988 Act, hereby makes the following Order:-

    1.    This Order may be cited as the Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st October 1991.

    2.    There shall be established, as from 1st October 1991, bodies corporate by the names given in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order to conduct, as from 1st April 1992, 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, save in the case of the Welsh College of Music and Drama, whose respective full-time equivalent enrolment numbers for courses of higher education appear to him to exceed 350.

    3.    1st April 1992 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.

[1] 1988 c. 40; section 122 was applied in relation to institutions in Wales by the Education Reform Act 1988 (Application of Section 122 to Institutions in Wales) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1391). back

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