The Kirkley Hall College, Ponteland, Northumberland (Dissolution) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3300

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Kirkley Hall College, Ponteland, Northumberland (Dissolution) Order 1999

Made

8th December 1999

Laid before Parliament

10th December 1999

Coming into force

1st January 2000

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 1992(1) (“the Act”), for the dissolution under section 27 of the Act of the further education corporation known as Kirkley Hall College, Ponteland, Northumberland(2) (“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 the further education corporation known as Northumberland College(3), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Kirkley Hall College, Ponteland, Northumberland (Dissolution) Order 1999, and shall come into force on 1st January 2000.

2.  On 1st January 2000 the corporation shall be dissolved and all of its property, rights and liabilities shall be transferred to Northumberland College, being a body corporate established for purposes which include the provision of educational facilities or services.

3.  Section 26(2), (3) and (4) of the Act shall apply to any person employed by the corporation immediately before 1st January 2000 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 January 2000;

(c) to the transferor were to the corporation; and

(d) to the corporation were to Northumberland College.

Tessa Blackstone

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

8th December 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves with effect from 1st January 2000 the further education corporation established to conduct Kirkley Hall College, Ponteland, Northumberland. It provides for the transfer of its property, rights and liabilities to Northumberland College, and secures the rights of its employees by applying section 26(2) to (4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.

(1)

1992 c. 13.

(2)

Established by the Education (Further Education Corporations) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2097).

(3)

The corporation was established by S.I. 1992/2097 under the name of Northumberland College of Arts and Technology. It changed its name to Northumberland College with effect from 1st September 1995.