PART ICOMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them:–
“academic board” means an academic board constituted under regulation 32;
“college” means a college of education;
“dissolved college” means a college dissolved by regulation 4;
“governing body” means the governing body of a college;
“governor” means a member of a governing body;
“higher academic staff”, in relation to a central institution, means the principal or director, any vice-principal, deputy principal or deputy director, and any person holding a post equivalent to those posts, in the institution;
“principal” means the principal of a college;
“relevant receiving college” means the college to the governing body of which the staff, property, rights, liabilities and obligations of the governing body of a dissolved college are transferred under Part III;
“students' representative council” means the students' representative council in a college, constituted under regulation 33;
“vice-principal” means a vice-principal of a college.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a regulation, Part or Schedule is a reference to a regulation or Part of these Regulations or a Schedule to these Regulations.