Explanatory note

This Order corrects a defect in the Education (Designated Institutions) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/282), which came into force on 1st April 1989. That Order designated certain institutions under section 129 of the Education Reform Act 1988 as eligible to receive funds administered by the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, and applied section 130 of that Act to them.

Section 130 effects a transfer of property from a local education authority to a designated institution formerly assisted by the authority. In the case of an institution not conducted by a body corporate, the property transfers to persons specified in the Order as appropriate transferees.

The institutions to which S.I. 1989/282 and this Order apply are not conducted by bodies corporate, but S.I. 1989/282 omitted to specify persons to whom property of the formerly assisting local education authorities would transfer. This Order makes good those omissions.