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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transfer of property, rights, liabilities and obligations",
  "text": "(1) On 1st April 1987 the whole property, heritable and moveable, and the rights, liabilities and obligations to which the governing body of a dissolved college specified in Column (2) of the following Table (opposite a serial number specified in Column (1) of the Table) was entitled or subject immediately before that day shall, by virtue of this regulation and subject to the provisions of these Regulations, be transferred to, vest in and become the property, rights, liabilities and obligations of the governing body of the relevant receiving college specified in Column (3) of the Table opposite that serial number:–\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nSerialNo.\nDissolved college\nRelevant receiving college\n1.\nAberdeen College of Education\nNorthern College of Education\n2.\nDundee College of Education\nNorthern College of Education\n3.\nDunfermline College of PhysicalEducation, Edinburgh\nMoray House College of Education (Incorporatingthe Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Movement and Leisure Studies)\n4.\nMoray House College of Education\nMoray House College of Education (Incorporatingthe Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Movement and Leisure Studies).\n(2) Any agreement made, transaction effected or other thing done in connection with a dissolved college by, to or in relation to the governing body of that college which is in force or effective immediately before 1st April 1987 shall have effect on and after that day as if made or done in connection with the relevant receiving college by, to or in relation to the governing body of that college in all respects as if the governing body of the relevant receiving college were the same person in law as the governing body of the dissolved college and accordingly references to the governing body of a dissolved college–\n(a) in any agreement whether or not in writing and in any deed, bond, instrument or notice;\n(b) in any action or proceeding pending or existing at 1st April 1987 by or against that governing body before any court or other tribunal; and\n(c) in any other document whatsoever (other than an enactment) relating to or affecting any property, right, liability or obligation of or relating to that dissolved college which vests by virtue of this regulation in a relevant receiving college,\nshall be taken on and after 1st April 1987 as referring to the governing body of the relevant receiving college.\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (1) and (2) above—\n(a) the rights, liabilities and obligations transferred and vested by virtue of paragraph (1) of this regulation shall include the rights, liabilities and obligations of the governing body of a dissolved college under any contract of employment in force immediately before 1st April 1987 between them and any member of staff of the dissolved college transferred by virtue of regulation 6;\n(b) by virtue of paragraph (2) of this regulation, any such contract of employment shall be modified by substituting for any reference therein to the governing body of the dissolved college a reference to the governing body of the relevant receiving college;\n(c) without prejudice to sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph, for the purposes of any such contract of employment (as it has effect by virtue of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regulation in relation to the governing body of the relevant receiving college) any period of employment with the governing body of a dissolved college under that contract shall count as employment with the governing body of the relevant receiving college; and\n(d) nothing in these Regulations shall have the effect of terminating any such contract of employment or of varying it in any other way.\n(4) The governing body of the relevant receiving college may, and shall if so required by the Secretary of State, sell or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of any heritable property transferred by virtue of paragraph (1) of this regulation on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Secretary of State and shall pay to the Secretary of State the whole or such part of any proceeds of such sale or disposal as he may require.\n(5) Where accommodation in any property of a dissolved college, transferred to and vested in the relevant receiving college by virtue of paragraph (1) of this regulation, is used (or in the case of accommodation not yet in occupation, proposed to be used), otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of any functions which on and after 1st April 1987 are not dischargeable by the governing body of the relevant receiving college, the user shall subject to paragraph (4) above be entitled to the use of such accommodation for such purposes as were authorised by the governing body of the dissolved college.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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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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