{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-124C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-124C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "section/124C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124C",
  "heading": "Initial and transitional arrangements : Wales.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall be the appointing authority in relation to the appointment of the first members of a corporation in Wales established on or after the appointed day and, in determining the number of members to appoint within each variable category of members, he shall secure that at least half of all the members of the corporation as first constituted are independent members.\n(2) In subsection (1) above “variable category of members” and “independent members” have the same meaning as in Schedule 7A to this Act.\n(3) The following provisions apply where an instrument of government is made under section 124A of this Act for a higher education corporation in Wales with respect to which Schedule 7 to this Act has effect.\n(4) The instrument shall apply, subject to subsection (5) below, as if the persons who, immediately before its coming into effect, were the members of the corporation had been appointed in accordance with the instrument for the residue of the term of their then subsisting appointment.\n(5) Any local authority nominee, teacher nominee, general staff nominee or student nominee (within the meaning, in each case, of Schedule 7 to this Act) shall cease to hold office.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 124A-124D inserted (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 71(1); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 124C(1) inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 11(b); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 124C(3) inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 11(c); S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 124C heading inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 11(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/124C",
    "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."
}