The Walford College, Shropshire (Dissolution) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3219

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Walford College, Shropshire (Dissolution) Order 2000

Made

7th December 2000

Laid before Parliament

8th December 2000

Coming into force

1st January 2001

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 dissolution under section 27 of the Act of the further education corporation known as the Walford College, Shropshire(2) (“the corporation”).

Now therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 27 of the Act, the Secretary of State, after consulting the corporation and with the consent of the further education corporation known as the North Shropshire College, Oswestry(3), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Walford College, Shropshire (Dissolution) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.

2.  On 1st January 2001 the corporation shall be dissolved and all of its property, rights and liabilities shall be transferred to the North Shropshire College, Oswestry, being a body corporate established for purposes, which include the provision of educational facilities or services.

3.  Section 26(2), (3) and (4) of the Act shall apply to any person employed by the corporation immediately before 1st January 2001 as if the references in that section—

(a) to a person to whom that section applies were to a person so employed;

(b) to the operative date were to 1st January 2001;

(c) to the transferor were to the corporation; and

(d) to the corporation were to the North Shropshire College, Oswestry.

Tessa Blackstone

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

7th December 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves with effect from 1st January 2001 the further education corporation established to conduct Walford College, Shropshire. It provides for the transfer of its property, rights and liabilities to the North Shropshire College, Oswestry (to be known from 1st January 2001 as Walford and North Shropshire College), and secures the rights of its employees by applying section 26(2) to (4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.

(1)

1992 c. 13.

(2)

Established by the Education (Further Education Corporations) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2097) under the name of Walford College of Agriculture, Shrewsbury. Its name was changed to Walford College, Shropshire on 1st January 1994.

(3)

Established by S.I. 1992/2097. On 1st January 2001 its name will be changed to Walford and North Shropshire College.