Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
23rd June 1999
Laid before Parliament
25th June 1999
Coming into force
1st August 1999
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 1992(1) (“the Act”), for the dissolution under section 27 of the Act of the further education corporations known as Charles Keene College of Further Education, Leicester and Leicester South Fields College(2) (“the Old Corporations”);
Now therefore in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 27 of the Act the Secretary of State after consulting the Old Corporations and with the consent of the further education corporation known as Leicester College(3) (“the New Corporation”) hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Charles Keene College of Further Education, Leicester and Leicester South Fields College (Dissolution) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st August 1999.
2. On 1st August 1999 the Old Corporations shall be dissolved and all of their respective property, rights and liabilities shall be transferred to the New Corporation, being a body corporate established for purposes which include the provision of educational facilities or services.
3. Section 26(2), (3) and (4) of the Act shall apply to any person employed by either of the Old Corporations immediately before 1st August 1999 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 1999;
(c)to the transferor were to either of the Old Corporations (as the case may be); and
(d)to the corporation were to the New Corporation.
Tessa Blackstone
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
23rd June 1999
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order dissolves with effect from 1st August 1999 the further education corporations established to conduct Charles Keene College of Further Education, Leicester and Leicester South Fields College. It provides that the property, rights and liabilities of the two corporations transfer to Leicester College and secures the rights of its employees by applying section 26(2) to (4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.