The Barry College Further Education Corporation and Coleg Glan Hafren Further Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2011

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves the further education corporations established to conduct Barry College (“Coleg y Barri”) and Coleg Glan Hafren with effect from 1 August 2011. It provides for the transfer of the property, rights and liabilities of each corporation to Cardiff and Vale College Further Education Corporation (“Corfforaeth Addysg Bellach Coleg Caerdydd a'r Fro”) and secures the employment rights of the employees of the dissolved corporations by applying, with modifications, section 26(2) to (4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (“the Act”).

The application of section 26(2) to (4) of the Act has the effect of preserving the employment contracts of employees of the dissolved corporations as if the contracts of employment were originally made between the employees and the Cardiff and Vale College Further Education Corporation (“Corfforaeth Addysg Bellach Caerdydd a'r Fro”). The employees of the dissolved corporations will become employees of the Cardiff and Vale College Further Education Corporation (“Corfforaeth Addysg Bellach Coleg Caerdydd a'r Fro”) from 1 August 2011.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.