The Brackenhurst College, Southwell (Dissolution) Order 1999

Made10th March 1999

Laid before Parliament11th March 1999

Coming into force1st April 1999

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 19921 (“the Act”), for the dissolution under section 27 of the Act of the further education corporation known as Brackenhurst College, Southwell2 (“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 Nottingham Trent University, hereby makes the following Order:

1.

This Order may be cited as the Brackenhurst College, Southwell (Dissolution) Order 1999, and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

2.

On 1st April 1999 the corporation shall be dissolved and all of its property, rights and liabilities shall be transferred to Nottingham Trent University.

3.

Section 26(2), (3) and (4) of the Act shall apply to any person employed by the corporation immediately before 1st April 1999 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 April 1999;

(c)

to the transferor were to the corporation; and

(d)

to the corporation were to Nottingham Trent University.

Tessa Blackstone

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

10th March 1999

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves with effect from 1st April 1999 the further education corporation established to conduct Brackenhurst College, Southwell. It provides for the transfer of its property, rights and liabilities to Nottingham Trent University, and secures the rights of its employees by applying section 26(2) to (4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.