The Education (Coleg Normal Bangor Higher Education Corporation) (Dissolution) Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 1225

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Coleg Normal Bangor Higher Education Corporation) (Dissolution) Order 1996

Made

29th April 1996

Laid before Parliament

15th May 1996

Coming into force

1st August 1996

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 128(1), (2) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988(1) the Secretary of State for Wales, having consulted in accordance with subsection (4) of the said section 128 Coleg Normal Bangor Higher Education Corporation(2) and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales(3), and with the consent of University College of North Wales, Bangor given in accordance with subsection (2) of that section, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Education (Coleg Normal Bangor Higher Education Corporation) (Dissolution) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st August 1996.

2.  In this Order—

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

“the Corporation” means Coleg Normal Bangor Higher Education Corporation.

3.—(1) The Corporation is dissolved.

(2) The property, rights and liabilities of the Corporation, other than rights and liabilities under any contract of employment, are transferred to and vest in University College of North Wales, Bangor.

4.  Section 127 of the Act shall apply in respect of any person employed immediately before 1st August 1996 by the Corporation to work solely at the institution conducted by the Corporation as if the references in that section—

(a) to the transfer date were to 1st August 1996;

(b) to the transferor authority were to the Corporation; and

(c) to the Corporation were to University College of North Wales, Bangor.

William Hague

Secretary of State for Wales

29th April 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves Coleg Normal Bangor Higher Education Corporation and transfers the property, rights and liabilities of that Corporation to University College of North Wales, Bangor (article 3). Contracts of employment of staff of the Corporation are transferred separately (article 4) by applying section 127 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (which is concerned with the transfer of staff to higher education corporations) with appropriate modifications.

(1)

1988 c. 40; section 128 was amended by paragraph 34 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13) and by paragraph 30 of Schedule 6 to the Charities Act 1993 (c. 10).

(2)

Established under the Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1976) made under section 122 of the Education Reform Act 1988.

(3)

Established by section 62 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.