4.—(1) Section 54(1) of the Act shall not apply to any college if—
(a)the college, at the date by which a college council would require to be established under section 54(1), will be administered either as part of a school or wholly or mainly for the provision of community education; or
(b)it appears to the education authority that the average student load of the college, calculated in accordance with paragraph (2), is less than 100.
(2) The average student load shall be calculated, for the purposes of paragraph (1)—
(a)in the case of a college which, at the date by which a college council would require to be established under section 54(1), will have existed for at least 3 complete academic years since its establishment or amalgamation, by calculating the student load for each of the last 3 complete academic years and taking the average of those student loads;
(b)in the case of a college which, at that date, will have existed for less than 3 complete academic years since its establishment or amalgamation, by calculating the student load for each complete academic year since its establishment or amalgamation, estimating the expected student load for the subsequent academic year, and taking the average of those student loads.
(3) Section 54(2) of the Act shall not apply to any college if—
(a)the education authority propose that on being established or amalgamated the college will be administered either as part of a school or wholly or mainly for the provision of community education; or
(b)it appears to the education authority that the student load for the first whole academic year in which the college will be fully in operation is likely to be less than 100.