The Edinburgh College of Art (Scotland) Order of Council 1995

PART I CITATION, COMMENCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Edinburgh College of Art (Scotland) Order of Council 1995 and shall come into force on 21st March 1995.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them:

“Academic Council” means the body of persons appointed in accordance with article 45;

“Co-opted Membership” means the membership of the Board of Governors appointed in accordance with article 5;

“Core Membership” means the membership of the Board of Governors appointed in accordance with article 4;

“establishment of further education” means a College of further education as defined in section 36(1) of the Act;

“establishment of higher education” means an Institution within the higher education sector as defined in section 56(2) of the Act;

“Governor” means a member of the Board of Governors;

“Principal” means the Principal or any person authorised, whether for the purposes of this Order or otherwise, for the time being to act as Principal of the College and “Vice-Principal” shall be construed accordingly;

“Secretary” means the Secretary for the time being of the College;

“the Act” means the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;

“the Board of Governors” means the Governors of the Edinburgh College of Art constituted and incorporated by the 1959 Order;

“the College” means the Edinburgh College of Art being an institution designated under section 44 of the Act;

“the 1959 Order” means the Edinburgh College of Art Order 1959(1);

“the 1988 Regulations” means the Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1988(2).

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered article, Part or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the article, Part or Schedule, as the case may be, which bears that number in this Order, and any reference to a numbered paragraph in an article of, or Schedule to, the Order is to be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that article or, as the case may be, that Schedule.

(1)

Confirmed by, and set out in the Schedule to, the Edinburgh College of Art Confirmation Act 1959 (c.xxxiv): the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1965/1251, S.I. 1988/1715 and S.I. 1990/2202.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1715 to which no relevant amendments have been made.