Explanatory note

This Order, made under section 122 of the Education Reform Act 1988 as applied, in relation to institutions in Wales by the Education Reform Act 1988 (Application of section 122 to Institutions in Wales) Order 1991, provides for the establishment of bodies corporate to conduct the institutions in Wales specified in column 2 of the Schedule to the Order. The bodies corporate are established by virtue of paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 to the Education Reform Act 1988 by the names given in column 1 on 1st October 1991 to prepare themselves for the conduct of those institutions from 1st April 1992 which date is appointed as the transfer date, defined in section 123(2) of that Act as the date for the transfer of local education authority property, rights and liabilities to those corporations. The Order also specifies, in relation to each such corporation, the local authority or authorities able to nominate one or more local authority nominees to become initial nominee members of the corporation.