SCHEDULE 9 Amendments
Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c.13)
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(1)
Section 19 of that Act (supplementary powers of a further education corporation) is amended as follows.
(2)
In subsection (3) omit “within the meaning of section 4(6) of this Act”.
(3)
“(bb)
subscribe for or otherwise acquire shares in or securities of a company,”.
F1(4)
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(5)
“(6)
A person has a learning difficulty if—
(a)
he has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of persons of his age, or
(b)
he has a disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided by institutions within the further education sector for persons of his age.
(7)
But a person is not to be taken to have a learning difficulty solely because the language (or form of language) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language (or form of language) which has at any time been spoken in his home.”