The Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) (No. 2) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2190

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) (No. 2) Order 1992

Made

28th August 1992

Laid before Parliament

11th September 1992

Coming into force

2nd October 1992

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 122, 126(2) and 232(5) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988(1), the Secretary of State for Wales hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) (No. 2) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 2nd October 1992.

2.  There shall be established as from 2nd October 1992, a body corporate by the name of the Welsh Agricultural College Higher Education Corporation to conduct, as from 1st April 1993, the institution known as the Welsh Agricultural College, being an institution which appears to the Secretary of State to satisfy the criteria set out in section 122(1) of the Education Reform Act 1988.

3.  1st April 1993 is hereby appointed as the transfer date for the said body corporate for the purposes of section 126 of that Act.

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

28th August 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision, under Section 122 of the Education Reform Act 1988, for the establishment of a body corporate to conduct the Welsh Agricultural College. The new body, which will have the name of the Welsh Agricultural College Higher Education Corporation, is established on 2nd October 1992 to prepare itself for the conduct of of that institution from 1st April 1993 which is appointed as the transfer date for the purpose of section 126 of that Act.

(1)

1988 c. 40; sections 122(2) to (5), and section 227(2) (which provides that section 122 shall not apply in relation to Wales) were repealed by, respectively, paragraphs 31 and 54 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13).