The Glasgow Clyde College (Removal and Appointment of Board Members) (Scotland) Order 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order removes George Chalmers from the Board of Management of Glasgow Clyde College (“the Glasgow Clyde Board”). He was, until the coming into force of this Order, the chairing member of the Glasgow Clyde Board, having been appointed under paragraph 3A(2)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”), which was inserted by section 6(1) of the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (“the 2013 Act”).

Article 2 of this Order also removes Jim Hamilton, Les Jacobs, Richard Leggett, Aileen Ponton, Elaine Proudfoot and Gordon Reid as members of the Glasgow Clyde Board. These members were appointed prior to the amendments made by the 2013 Act to the 1992 Act coming into force in relation to the Glasgow Clyde Board but, under transitional arrangements made under section 6(2) of the 2013 Act, they are treated as having been appointed under paragraph 3A(2)(f) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act. Article 2 also removes Peter Laverie as a member of the Glasgow Clyde Board, who was appointed a member by virtue of paragraph 3A(2)(c) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act.

Article 3 of this Order appoints Alex Linkston as the chairing member of the Glasgow Clyde Board. Article 3 also appoints Sandra Heidinger, Gordon McGuinness, Alex Muirhead, David Newall, Gill Troup and Michael Yuille as members of the Glasgow Clyde Board in place of those members who were treated as having been appointed under paragraph 3A(2)(f) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act and who are removed by Article 2 of this Order.

Those appointed members will hold office under letters of appointment authorised by this Order and article 4 provides that the members appointed under this Order hold office until 30th September 2016.

The Scottish Ministers have exercised this power of removal and appointment because it appears to them that the Glasgow Clyde Board have committed repeated breaches of terms and conditions of a grant made to them under section 12 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 (“the 2005 Act”) and have mismanaged the affairs of the Glasgow Clyde Board. By virtue of section 24(5) of the 1992 Act, the appointments of the chairing member and other members under article 3 of this Order have effect as if they had been appointed to the Glasgow Clyde Board under paragraph 3A(2)(a) and (f) respectively of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act. This means that, under paragraph 5 of that Schedule (and subject to article 4 of this Order), these members hold and vacate office on such terms and conditions as the Regional Board for Glasgow Colleges (which is the regional strategic body to which Glasgow Clyde College is assigned under section 7C(1) of the 2005 Act) determines.