{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-123A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-123A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "section/123A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "123A",
  "heading": "Principal powers of a higher education corporation in England",
  "text": "(1) A higher education corporation in England has power—\n(a) to provide higher education;\n(b) to provide further education;\n(c) to provide secondary education suitable to the requirements of persons who have attained the age of 14 years;\n(d) to provide education which is secondary education by virtue of section 2(2B) of the Education Act 1996 (definition of secondary education);\n(e) to participate in the provision of secondary education at a school; and\n(f) to carry out research and to publish the results of the research or any other material arising out of or connected with it in such manner as the corporation think fit.\n(2) A higher education corporation in England may not provide education of a kind specified in subsection (1)(c) or (d) unless they have consulted such local authorities as they consider appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SS. 123A, 123B inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 6; 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/123A",
    "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."
}