{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-122",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-122.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "section/122",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "122",
  "heading": "Orders incorporating higher education institutions maintained by local authorities in Wales.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, if at any time it appears to the Secretary of State, in the case of any institution maintained by a local authority in Wales, that its full-time equivalent enrolment number for courses of higher education exceeds 55 per cent. of its total full-time equivalent enrolment number he may make an order under this section with respect to that institution.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) An order under this section with respect to any institution shall make provision for the establishment of a body corporate for the purpose of conducting that institution as from the transfer date applicable in relation to that body corporate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), Sch. 2 para. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 122(1) inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 2(b); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 122(2)-(5) repealed (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 31, Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 122 heading inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 2(a); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 122 applied by S.I. 1991/1391, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/section/122",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:49.452107+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}