
Print Options
PrintThe Whole
Act
PrintThe Whole
Part
PrintThe Whole
Chapter
PrintThe Whole
Cross Heading
PrintThis
Section
only
Status:
Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.

Status
You are viewing this legislation item as it stood at a particular point in time. A later version of this or provision, including subsequent changes and effects, supersedes this version.
Note the term provision is used to describe a definable element in a piece of legislation that has legislative effect – such as a Part, Chapter or section.
Changes to legislation:
Education Reform Act 1988, Section 127 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

Changes to Legislation
Changes and effects yet to be applied by the editorial team are only applicable when viewing the latest version or prospective version of legislation. They are therefore not accessible when viewing legislation as at a specific point in time. To view the ‘Changes to Legislation’ information for this provision return to the latest version view using the options provided in the ‘What Version’ box above.
127 Transfer of staff to higher education corporations.E+W
(1)This section applies to any person who immediately before the transfer date applicable in relation to a higher education corporation—
(a)is employed by the transferor authority to work solely at the institution the corporation is established to conduct; or
(b)is employed by that authority to work at that institution and is designated for the purposes of this section by an order made by the Secretary of State.
(2)The contract of employment between a person to whom this section applies and the transferor authority shall have effect from the transfer date as if originally made between him and the corporation.
(3)Without prejudice to subsection (2) above—
(a)all the transferor authority’s rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with a contract to which that subsection applies shall by virtue of this section be transferred to the corporation on the transfer date; and
(b)anything done before that date by or in relation to the transferor authority in respect of that contract or the employee shall be deemed from that date to have been done by or in relation to the corporation.
(4)Subsections (2) and (3) above are without prejudice to any right of an employee to terminate his contract of employment if a substantial change is made to his detriment in his working conditions, but no such right shall arise by reason only of the change in employer effected by this section.
(5)An order under this section may designate a person either individually or as a member of a class or description of employees.
(6)References in this section, in relation to a higher education corporation, to the transferor authority, are references to the local education authority by whom the institution that corporation is established to conduct is maintained immediately before the transfer date.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Back to top