Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2018 No. 139

Higher And Further Education

The Education (Recognised Bodies) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2018

Made

17th July 2018

Coming into operation

23rd July 2018

The Department for the Economy, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 5(1) of the Education (Unrecognised Degrees) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988(1), and now vested in it(2), makes the following Order:

Citation and Commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Education (Recognised Bodies) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2018 and shall come into operation on 23rd July 2018.

Amendment of the Education (Recognised Bodies) Order (Northern Ireland) 2018

2. In the Schedule, after “Plymouth University”, insert “Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for the Economy on 17th July 2018.

Trevor Cooper

A senior officer of the

Department

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Education (Recognised Bodies) Order (Northern Ireland) 2018 lists all those bodies which appear to the Department for the Economy to be recognised within Article 3(2)(a) or (b) of the Education (Unrecognised Degrees) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988. Such bodies are either:-

(a) universities, colleges or other bodies authorised by Royal Charter or an Act of Parliament to grant degrees; or

(b) bodies which are, for the time being, permitted by any body falling within paragraph (a) to act on its behalf in the granting of degrees.

Article 3(1) of the 1988 Order makes it an offence to grant, offer to grant, or issue any invitation relating to certain unrecognised degrees and awards. That Article does not apply to any award made by a recognised body.

This Order amends the 2018 Order to add the Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland to the list of recognised bodies contained in the Schedule to that Order.

(1)

S.I. 1988/1989 (N.I. 22)

(2)

See S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 5(b) and Schedule 3 Part II, which transferred the functions of the Department of Education to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, which was renamed the Department for Employment and Learning, “DEL”, by Section 1 of 2001 c. 15 (N.I). See S.R. 2016 No.76, Article 6(1)(c) which transferred the functions from DEL to the Department for the Economy