The East Durham and Houghall Community College (Incorporation) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 706

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The East Durham and Houghall Community College (Incorporation) Order 1999

Made

10th March 1999

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1999

Coming into force

1st April 1999

Whereas the Secretary of State for Education and Employment has received a proposal from the Further Education Funding Council for England, made in accordance with section 51 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(1) (“the Act”), for the establishment of a body corporate under section 16(1)(a) of the Act;

Now therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16(1) and 17 of the Act and for the purpose of giving effect to that proposal, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the East Durham and Houghall Community College (Incorporation) Order 1999, and shall come into force on 1st April 1999 (“the Commencement Date”).

2.  On the Commencement Date there shall be established a body corporate called “East Durham and Houghall Community College” for the purpose of establishing and conducting from the operative date a new educational institution of that name (to be formed by the merger of Durham College of Agriculture and Horticulture and East Durham Community College).

3.  The “operative date” in relation to the further education corporation established by this Order shall be 1st June 1999, and the corporation shall conduct East Durham and Houghall Community College from that date.

Tessa Blackstone

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

10th March 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes a further education corporation under section 16(1) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 for the purpose of establishing and conducting East Durham and Houghall Community College and appoints 1st June 1999 as the “operative date” for the purposes of Part I of that Act.

(1)

1992 c. 13.