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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/berkshire-college-of-art-and-design-maidenhead-dissolution-order-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3136",
  "legislation_title": "The Berkshire College of Art and Design, Maidenhead (Dissolution) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/berkshire-college-of-art-and-design-maidenhead-dissolution-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 10th December 1996\nLaid before Parliament 16th December 1996\nComing into force 6th January 1997\nWhereas 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 (“the Act”), for the dissolution under section 27 of the Act of the further education corporation known as Berkshire College of Art and Design, Maidenhead (“the Transferor”);\nNow therefore in exercise of the power conferred on her by section 27 of the Act the Secretary of State after consulting the Transferor and with the consent of the further education corporation known as Reading College of Arts and Technology (“the Transferee”) hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Established by the Education (Further Education Corporations) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2097)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Also established by the Order mentioned in (b), under the name Reading College of Technology. Its name was changed to Reading College of Arts and Technology on 1st September 1994."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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