Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 355

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The North Riding College Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2000

Made

14th February 2000

Laid before Parliament

16th February 2000

Coming into force

1st August 2000

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 Education and Employment, after consultation with North Riding College higher education corporation(2) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England in accordance with subsection (4) of the said section 128 and with the consent of the University of Hull given in accordance with subsection (2) of that section, hereby makes the following Order:–

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the North Riding College Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st August 2000.

(2) In this Order “the corporation” means North Riding College higher education corporation.

2. On 1st August 2000 the corporation shall be dissolved and all of its property, rights and liabilities shall be transferred to and vest in the University of Hull.

3. Section 127 of the Education Reform Act 1988 shall apply to any person employed by the corporation immediately before 1st August 2000 as if the reference in that section–

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

(b)to the transfer date were to 1st August 2000;

(c)to the transferor authority were to the corporation; and

(d)to the corporation were to the University of Hull.

Tessa Blackstone

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

14th February 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order dissolves North Riding College higher education corporation. It provides that the property, rights and liabilities of the dissolved corporation transfer to the University of Hull and secures the rights of employees by applying section 127 of the Education Reform Act 1988.

(1)

1988 c. 40; section 128 as amended by paragraph 34 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13).

(2)

Established under section 121(1) of the Education Reform Act 1988 by virtue of S.I. 1988/1799.