Explanatory note

This Order makes provision for the establishment of a body corporate to conduct Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology (Higher Education). That body which, by virtue of paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 to the Education Reform Act 1988 will have the name of Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology (Higher Education), is established on 15th January 1990 to prepare itself for the conduct of that institution from 1st April 1990 which is appointed as the transfer date for the purposes of section 126 of that Act. The order also specifies Gloucestershire County Council as the local authority able to nominate one local authority nominee to become a member of that body corporate.