Education Reform Act 1988

130 Transfer of property, etc., to certain designated institutions. E+W

(1) This section applies to an institution designated under section 129 of this Act in any case where—

(a) the order designating the institution under that section so provides; and

(b) immediately before the date on which the designation takes effect (referred to below in this section, in relation to such an institution, as the designation date) the institution is an institution assisted by a local education authority (referred to below in this section as the former assisting authority).

(2) Subject to subsection (4) below and section 198 of this Act, on the designation date in relation to any institution to which this section applies the property, rights and liabilities mentioned in subsection (3) below shall be transferred to, and by virtue of this Act vest in, the appropriate transferee.

(3) The property, rights and liabilities referred to in subsection (2) above are—

(a) all land or other property which, immediately before that date, was property of the former assisting authority used or held for the purposes of that institution; and

(b) all rights and liabilities of that authority subsisting immediately before that date which were acquired or incurred for those purposes.

(4) Subsection (2) above shall not apply to—

(a) any liability of the former assisting authority in respect of the principal of, or any interest on, any loan; or

(b) any liability of that authority in respect of compensation for premature retirement of any person formerly employed by them.

(5) In subsection (2) above, “the appropriate transferee” means—

(a) in relation to an institution conducted by a body corporate, that body; and

(b) in relation to an institution not so conducted, any persons specified in the order designating the institution as persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be trustees holding property for the purposes of that institution.

(6) Subject to subsection (7) below, where any persons so specified are the appropriate transferee for the purposes of subsection (2) above—

(a) any land or other property or rights transferred to them under this section shall be held by them on the trusts applicable under such trust deed relating to or regulating that institution (if any) as may be so specified or, if no such trust deed is so specified, on trust for the purposes of the institution; and

(b) they shall incur no personal liability by virtue of any liability so transferred, but may apply any property held by them on trust for the purposes of the institution in meeting any such liability.

(7) Subsection (6)(a) above shall not apply in relation to any land or other property or rights which immediately before the designation date in relation to the institution concerned were vested in the former assisting authority as trustees for any particular purposes or (as the case may be) for the general purposes of the institution.

(8) In this Act, “transfer date” means, in relation to an institution to which this section applies, the designation date in relation to that institution.