These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Proposed Further and Higher Education Institutions) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st September 1989.

In these Regulations–

• “the Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;

• references to a proposed institution are references to an institution of further or higher education proposed to be established by a local education authority which, in the financial year in which it is established, will be required to be covered by a scheme by virtue of section 139(4) of the Act; and

• references to schemes are references to schemes for planning and funding locally funded further and higher education prepared by local education authorities under section 139 of the Act.