1998 No. 1653
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The High Peak College, Buxton (Dissolution) Order 1998

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
Whereas the Secretary of State for Education and Employment has received a proposal from the Further Education Funding Council for England, made in accordance with section 51 of the Further and Higher Education Act 19921 (“the Act”), for the dissolution under section 27 of the Act of the further education corporation known as High Peak College, Buxton2 (“the corporation”);

Now therefore in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 27 of the Act the Secretary of State after consulting the corporation and with the consent of the University of Derby hereby makes the following Order:

1.

This Order may be cited as the High Peak College, Buxton (Dissolution) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st August 1998.

2.

On 1st August 1998 the corporation shall be dissolved and all of its property, rights and liabilities shall be transferred to the University of Derby.

3.

Section 26(2), (3) and (4) of the Act shall apply to any person employed by the corporation immediately before 1st August 1998 as if the references in that section—

(a)

to a person to whom that section applies were to a person so employed;

(b)

to the operative date were to 1st August 1998;

(c)

to the transferor were to the corporation; and

(d)

to the corporation were to the University of Derby.

Tessa Blackstone
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves the further education corporation established to conduct High Peak College, Buxton. It provides that its property, rights and liabilities transfer to the University of Derby and secures the rights of its employees by applying section 26(2) to (4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.