The College Councils (Scotland) (No.2) Regulations 1990

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expre ssions have the meanings respectively assigned to them—

“academic year” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1st August in any calendar year;

“college” means a college of further education;

“college development plan” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 13(1)(a);

“community education” means such further education as is referred to in section 1(5)(b)(iii) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(1);

“financial year” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1st April in any calendar year, so however that for the purposes of these Regulations the first financial year shall be the period of 12 months commencing on 1st April 1991;

“local authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 235(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(2);

“personnel management” includes the training, career development and appraisal of the staff of a college;

“premises” includes any land or building;

“staff member” means a member of the college council, other than the principal, who is employed at the college or was so employed at the time of his appointment;

“student load” means, in respect of an academic year, the figure calculated by adding together the number of hours of attendance required of all students at the college (including where open and flexible learning arrangements apply to any student the number of hours of attendance at college which otherwise would have been required for the student to complete a course) and dividing the total by 800;

“student member” means a member of the college council who is a student at the college or was such a student at the time of his appointment;

“the Act” means the Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989(3).

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a num bered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.

(1)

1980 c. 44; section 1(5)(b)(iii) was amended by the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43), Schedule 3, paragraph 37(b) and Schedule 4, Part I and by S.I. 1982/1397, Schedule 2.

(2)

1973 c. 65.

(3)

1989 c. 39.