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Relevant modifications to that Act are contained in the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (<abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> 2) Order 1999, Schedule 2, paragraph 91 (<abbr class="acronym" title="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</abbr> <ref eId="c00004" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1999/1820">1999/1820</ref>). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act <ref eId="c00005" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/46">1998 (c. 46)</ref>.</p></authorialNote> and all other powers enabling them to do so.</p></formula></preamble><body><article eId="article-1"><heading>Citation, commencement and extent</heading><num>1.</num><paragraph eId="article-1-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This Order may be cited as the Education (Recognised Bodies) (Scotland) Order 2007 and comes into force on 1st January 2008.</p></content></paragraph><paragraph eId="article-1-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>This Order extends to Scotland only.</p></content></paragraph></article><article eId="article-2"><heading>Recognised Bodies</heading><num>2.</num><content><p>The bodies listed in the Schedule to this Order comprise all those bodies which appear to the Scottish Ministers to be recognised bodies.</p></content></article><article eId="article-3"><heading>Revocation</heading><num>3.</num><content><p>The Education (Recognised Bodies) Order 1999<authorialNote class="footnote" eId="f00002" marker="2"><p><abbr class="acronym" title="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</abbr> <ref eId="c00006" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1999/833">1999/833</ref>.</p></authorialNote> and the Education (Recognised Bodies) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2005<authorialNote class="footnote" eId="f00003" marker="3"><p><ref eId="c00007" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2005/591">S.S.I. 2005/591</ref>.</p></authorialNote> are revoked.</p></content></article><hcontainer name="signatures"><hcontainer name="signatureBlock"><content><block name="signature"><signature refersTo="#">FIONA HYSLOP</signature></block><block name="role"><role refersTo="#">A member of the Scottish Executive</role></block><blockContainer class="address"><p><location refersTo="#">St Andrew’s House,</location></p><p><location refersTo="#">Edinburgh</location></p></blockContainer><block name="date"><date date="2007-12-12">12th December 2007</date></block></content></hcontainer></hcontainer><hcontainer name="schedules"><hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule"><num>SCHEDULE<authorialNote class="referenceNote"><p>Article 2</p></authorialNote></num><content><blockList class="unordered none" ukl:Name="UnorderedList" ukl:Decoration="none"><item><p>University of Aberdeen</p></item><item><p>University of Abertay Dundee</p></item><item><p>Aberystwyth University (Prifysgol Aberystwyth)</p></item><item><p>Anglia Ruskin University</p></item><item><p>Archbishop of Canterbury, The</p></item><item><p>University of the Arts, London</p></item><item><p>Aston University</p></item><item><p>Bangor University (Prifysgol Bangor)</p></item><item><p>University of Bath</p></item><item><p>Bath Spa University</p></item><item><p>University of Bedfordshire</p></item><item><p>University of Birmingham</p></item><item><p>Birmingham City University</p></item><item><p>Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln</p></item><item><p>University of Bolton, The</p></item><item><p>Bournemouth University</p></item><item><p>BPP College of Professional Studies</p></item><item><p>University of Bradford</p></item><item><p>University of Brighton</p></item><item><p>University of Bristol</p></item><item><p>Brunel University</p></item><item><p>University of Buckingham</p></item><item><p>Buckinghamshire New University</p></item><item><p>University of Cambridge</p></item><item><p>Canterbury Christ Church University</p></item><item><p>Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd)</p></item><item><p>University of Central Lancashire</p></item><item><p>University of Chester</p></item><item><p>University of Chichester</p></item><item><p>City University</p></item><item><p>College of Law, The</p></item><item><p>College of St Mark &amp; St John, Plymouth, The</p></item><item><p>Coventry University</p></item><item><p>Cranfield University</p></item><item><p>University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester</p></item><item><p>University of Cumbria</p></item><item><p>De Montfort University</p></item><item><p>University of Derby</p></item><item><p>University of Dundee</p></item><item><p>University of Durham</p></item><item><p>University of East Anglia</p></item><item><p>University of East London</p></item><item><p>Edge Hill University</p></item><item><p>University of Edinburgh</p></item><item><p>University of Essex</p></item><item><p>University of Exeter</p></item><item><p>University College Falmouth</p></item><item><p>University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg)</p></item><item><p>University of Glasgow</p></item><item><p>Glasgow Caledonian University</p></item><item><p>University of Gloucestershire</p></item><item><p>University of Greenwich</p></item><item><p>Harper Adams University College</p></item><item><p>Henley Management College</p></item><item><p>Heriot Watt University</p></item><item><p>University of Hertfordshire</p></item><item><p>University of Huddersfield</p></item><item><p>University of Hull</p></item><item><p>Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (also known as Imperial College, London)</p></item><item><p>Institute of Education<authorialNote class="footnote" eId="f00004" marker="4"><p>Constituent college of the University of London.</p></authorialNote></p></item><item><p>University of Keele</p></item><item><p>University of Kent</p></item><item><p>King’s College London</p></item><item><p>Kingston University</p></item><item><p>University of Lancaster</p></item><item><p>University of Leeds</p></item><item><p>Leeds Metropolitan University</p></item><item><p>University of Leicester</p></item><item><p>University of Lincoln</p></item><item><p>University of Liverpool</p></item><item><p>Liverpool Hope University</p></item><item><p>Liverpool John Moores University</p></item><item><p>University of London</p></item><item><p>University College London</p></item><item><p>London Metropolitan University</p></item><item><p>London School of Economics and Political Science</p></item><item><p>London South Bank University</p></item><item><p>Loughborough University</p></item><item><p>University of Manchester</p></item><item><p>Manchester Metropolitan University, The</p></item><item><p>Middlesex University</p></item><item><p>Napier University</p></item><item><p>University of Newcastle upon Tyne</p></item><item><p>Newman College of Higher Education, Birmingham</p></item><item><p>University of Northampton, The</p></item><item><p>University of Northumbria at Newcastle</p></item><item><p>University of Nottingham</p></item><item><p>Nottingham Trent University</p></item><item><p>Open University</p></item><item><p>University of Oxford</p></item><item><p>Oxford Brookes University</p></item><item><p>University of Plymouth</p></item><item><p>University of Portsmouth</p></item><item><p>Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh</p></item><item><p>Queen’s University of Belfast, The</p></item><item><p>University of Reading</p></item><item><p>Robert Gordon University, The</p></item><item><p>Roehampton University</p></item><item><p>Royal Agricultural College</p></item><item><p>Royal College of Art</p></item><item><p>Royal College of Music</p></item><item><p>Royal Northern College of Music</p></item><item><p>Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, The</p></item><item><p>University of Salford</p></item><item><p>University of Sheffield</p></item><item><p>Sheffield Hallam University</p></item><item><p>University of Southampton</p></item><item><p>Southampton Solent University</p></item><item><p>University of <abbr title="Saint">St.</abbr> Andrews</p></item><item><p>St Mary’s University College</p></item><item><p>Staffordshire University</p></item><item><p>University of Stirling</p></item><item><p>University of Strathclyde</p></item><item><p>University of Sunderland</p></item><item><p>University of Surrey</p></item><item><p>University of Sussex</p></item><item><p>Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe)</p></item><item><p>University of Teesside</p></item><item><p>Thames Valley University</p></item><item><p>University of Ulster</p></item><item><p>University of Wales (Prifysgol Cymru)</p></item><item><p>University of Wales Institute Cardiff (Athrofa Prifysgol Cymru Caerdydd)</p></item><item><p>University of Wales, Lampeter (Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan)</p></item><item><p>University of Wales, Newport (Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd)</p></item><item><p>University of Warwick</p></item><item><p>University of the West of England, Bristol</p></item><item><p>University of the West of Scotland</p></item><item><p>University of Westminster</p></item><item><p>University of Winchester</p></item><item><p>University of Wolverhampton</p></item><item><p>University of Worcester</p></item><item><p>University of York</p></item><item><p>York St John 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degrees.</p></blockContainer></blockContainer><blockContainer ukl:Name="P"><p>Section 214 of the 1988 Act makes it an offence for any person to grant, offer to grant or issue any invitation relating to any award which is not a recognised award but which may be taken to be an award granted or to be granted by a United Kingdom institution and is either described as a degree or may reasonably be taken to be a degree.</p><blockList class="definition"><item><p>“Recognised awards” includes awards granted or to be granted by a recognised body. Any body listed in this Order is conclusively presumed to be a recognised body for the purposes of section 214.</p></item></blockList></blockContainer><blockContainer ukl:Name="P"><p>The Order updates and replaces the list of bodies contained in the Education (Recognised Bodies) Order 1999 (<ref eId="c00001" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1999/833">SI 1999/833</ref>) as amended by the Education (Recognised Bodies) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2005 (<abbr class="acronym" title="Scottish Statutory Instrument">SSI</abbr> <ref eId="c00002" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2005/591">2005/591</ref>). This Order revokes the 1999 Order in respect of Scotland and the 2005 Amendment Order.</p></blockContainer><blockContainer ukl:Name="P"><p>The Order adds a number of new bodies to the Schedule, as these bodies appear to the Scottish Ministers to fall within (a) or (b) above. 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