The Swansea Metropolitan University Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2013

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 1729 (W. 170)

Education, Wales

The Swansea Metropolitan University Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2013

Made

9 July 2013

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

11 July 2013

Coming into force

1 August 2013

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 128 of the Education Reform Act 1988(1) and now exercisable by them(2).

In accordance with section 128(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David(3) (“Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant”), being a body corporate established for purposes which include the provision of educational facilities or services within the meaning of section 128(1)(b)(ii) of that Act, has consented to the transfer to it of the property, rights and liabilities of the Swansea Metropolitan University Higher Education Corporation(4) (“Corfforaeth Addysg Uwch Prifysgol Fetropolitan Abertawe”).

The Welsh Ministers have consulted the Swansea Metropolitan University Higher Education Corporation and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales in accordance with section 128(4) of that Act.

(1)

1988 c.40. Section 128 was amended by the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c.13), Schedule 8, paragraph 34; the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c.21), Schedule 9, paragraphs 1 and 16; the Education Act 2011 (c.21), section 67 and Schedule 16, paragraph 8; the Charities Act 2011 (c.25), Schedule 7, paragraph 51; the National Council for Education and Training for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3238) (W.243), Schedule 1, paragraph 12 and the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1080), paragraphs 15 and 16.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under section 128 were transferred, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32) those functions are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.

(3)

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is a corporation established under Royal Charter.

(4)

Established as a higher education corporation under section 122(1) of the Education Reform Act 1988 by virtue of S.I. 1991/1976.