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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 481

HIGHER AND FURTHER EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT

Education (Listed Bodies) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

19th November 2003

Coming into operation

30th December 2003

The Department for Employment and Learning(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 5(2) of the Education (Unrecognised Degrees) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988(2) and now exercisable by it(3) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (Listed Bodies) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 30th December 2003.

(2) In this Order “the Department” means the Department for Employment and Learning.

Listed bodies

2.  For the purposes of Article 5(2) of the Education (Unrecognised Degrees) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988, the Department hereby publishes the list set out in the Schedule as the list including the name of every body which appears to it to fall for the time being within Article 5(3) of that Order.

Revocation

3.  The Education (Listed Bodies) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000(4) is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 19th November 2003.

L.S.

D. S. McAuley

A Senior Officer of the

Department for Employment and Learning

SCHEDULE

PART 1PROVIDERS OF COURSES LEADING TO A DEGREE

PART 2INSTITUTIONS OF A UNIVERSITY

PART 3PROVIDERS OF COURSES LEADING TO A FOUNDATION DEGREE

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order repeals and replaces the Education (Listed Bodies) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000.

Article 3(1) of the Education (Unrecognised Degrees) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (“the 1988 Order”) makes it an offence to grant, offer to grant or issue any invitation relating to certain degrees and awards. This does not apply to anything done in relation to a recognised award. Such an award includes any award granted or to be granted –

(a)by a university, college or other body which is authorised by Royal Charter or Act of Parliament to grant degrees; or

(b)by any body so authorised to act on its behalf in the granting of degrees

Such bodies are recognised bodies and this Order contains the list of the names of each body which is not a recognised body within Article 3(2)(a) or (b) of the 1988 Order but which either –

(a)provides any course which is in preparation for a degree to be granted by a recognised body and is approved by or on behalf of the recognised body; or

(b)is a constituent college, school or hall or other institution of a university which is a recognised body.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) and the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 15)

(3)

S.R. 1999 No. 481, see Article 5(b) and Schedule 3 Part II