Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992

Part I S Provisions relating to Part I of this Act

Supply of services S

1 (1) Where, in relation to any college of further education— S

(a) there is in existence at the first transfer date an arrangement whereby any defined activity (being functional work) is undertaken by a local authority which is the education authority responsible, immediately before the first transfer date, for the management of the college;

(b) each of the six conditions is fulfilled; and

(c) the arrangement is to subsist for any period after that date,

the arrangement shall be binding, as from the first transfer date, on the board of management of the college and may be enforced by the board or, as the case may be, the local authority as if it were a contract between them for the performance of the defined activity.

(2) In the enforcement of any arrangement as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above, any provision under the arrangement in pursuance of section 8(3) of the M1 Local Government Act 1988 for items to be credited or, as the case may be, debited to any account shall be taken to be a requirement on the local authority or, as the case may be, the board to make payments corresponding to such provision.

(3) In this paragraph—

• “defined activity” means a defined activity for the purposes of Part I of the Local Government Act 1988;

• “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 1(3)(a) of that Act; and

• “the six conditions” are the conditions referred to in section 6(1) of that Act.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 8 para. 1 wholly in force at 16.5.1992 see s. 63(2) and S.I. 1992/817, art. 3(2), Sch. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 1988 c. 9.

Appointment of staff by education authority S

2 S Without prejudice to section 30 of this Act, with effect from such date as the Secretary of State may appoint in relation to a college of further education under section 34 of this Act, the education authority under whose management the college is shall not enter into a contract of employment relating to the employment of any person wholly or mainly for or in connection with the purposes of such college if the contract is to take effect on or after the first transfer date.

Commencement Information

I2 Sch. 8 para. 2 wholly in force at 16.5.1992 see s. 63(2) and S.I. 1992/817, art. 3(2), Sch. 1

General S

3 (1) The Secretary of State may by order make such consequential modifications of any provision of any local or private Act passed, or subordinate legislation made, before the first transfer date which refers to the college council for any college of further education as appear to him to be necessary or expedient. S

(2) The Secretary of State may, in relation to any particular functions of college councils, by order exclude, modify or supplement any provision of this Schedule, section 34 of and Schedules 3 and 5 to this Act and may make such other transitional provision as he considers necessary or expedient.

(3) Nothing in this paragraph shall apply in relation to contracts of employment made by an education authority.

Commencement Information

I3 Sch. 8 para. 3 wholly in force at 16.5.1992 see s. 63(2) and S.I. 1992/817, art. 3(2), Sch. 1