{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-123",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-123.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "section/123",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "123",
  "heading": "Provisions supplementary to sections 121 to 122A.",
  "text": "(1) References in this Act to a higher education corporation are references to a body corporate established under section 121 or 122 of this Act or which has become a higher education corporation by virtue of section 122ZA or 122A of this Act.\n(2) In this Act “transfer date” means, in relation to a higher education corporation, the date appointed under section 126 of this Act in relation to the transfer under that section of property, rights and liabilities to that corporation.\n(3) Schedule 7 to this Act has effect with respect to each higher education corporation in Wales established before the appointed day (within the meaning of section 124A of this Act) unless an instrument of government for the corporation made under that section has effect.\n(4) A higher education corporation in Wales established under section 122 of this Act on or after that day for the purpose of conducting any institution shall be established initially under the name given in the order under that section establishing the corporation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 123(1) added (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 32(a); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.3."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 123(1) inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 5(b); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 123(3)(4) substituted for s. 123(3) (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 32(b); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 123(3) inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 5(c); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 123(4) inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 5(c); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 123 heading substituted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 5(a); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/section/123",
    "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."
}