Version Superseded: 05/05/2010
Point in time view as at 01/09/2005. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Further and Higher Education Act 1992, Section 15 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 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.
(1)Before the appointed day the Secretary of State shall by order specify—
(a)each educational institution maintained by a local education authority which appears to him to fall within subsection (2) below, and
(b)each county school, controlled school or grant-maintained school which appears to him to fall within subsection (3) below.
(2)An institution falls within this subsection if on 1st November 1990 its enrolment number calculated in accordance with paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 3 to this Act was not less than 15 per cent. of its total enrolment number calculated in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of that Schedule.
(3)An institution falls within this subsection if on 17th January 1991 not less than 60 per cent. of the pupils at the institution were receiving full-time education suitable to the requirements of persons over compulsory school age who have not attained the age of nineteen years.
(4)On the appointed day a body corporate shall be established, for each institution so specified, for the purpose of conducting the institution as from the operative date.
(5)The name given in the order under subsection (1) above as the name of the institution shall be the initial name of the body corporate.
(6)Where an educational institution, being an institution maintained by a local education authority or a grant-maintained school, has been established since 1st November 1990 or, as the case may be, 17th January 1991 by a merger of two or more institutions existing on that date, the institution shall be treated as falling within subsection (2) or, as the case may be, subsection (3) above if it would have done so if the merger had taken place before that date.
(7)In this section “the appointed day” means the day appointed under section 94 of this Act for the commencement of subsection (4) above.
Commencement Information
I1S. 15 wholly in force: s. 15(1)(2)(3)(5)(6)(7) in force at 6.5.1992; s. 15(4) in force at 30.9.1992, see s. 94(3) and S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Schs. 1, 2
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