{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-129",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/section-129.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "section/129",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "129",
  "heading": "Designation of institutions.",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may by order designate for the purposes of this section —\n(a) any institution in Wales which appears to them to fall within subsection (2) below; and\n(b) any institution in Wales which is, or is to be, conducted by a successor company to a higher education corporation.\n(2) An institution falls within this subsection if its full-time equivalent enrolment number for courses of higher education exceeds 55 per cent. of its total full-time equivalent enrolment number.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above, a company is a successor company to a higher education corporation if-\n(a) it is a company limited by a guarantee formed and registered under the Companies Act 2006;\n(b) at the time when it was formed the persons participating in its formation were all members of a higher education corporation and constituted a majority of the members of that corporation;\n(c) its objects—\n(i) are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales; and\n(ii) include the conduct of the institution which was at that time conducted by that corporation;\n(d) its articles of association have been approved by the Welsh Ministers; and\n(e) an order has been made under section 127A or 128 of this Act dissolving the corporation and transferring the property, rights and liabilities of the corporation to the company (whether or not that order has taken effect before the order under this section is made).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 129(1)(2) substituted (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 72(1)(a); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(1) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 5(4)(a)(i) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(iii) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(1) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 5(4)(a)(ii) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(iii) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(1)(a) inserted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 5(4)(a)(iv) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(iii) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 129(1)(a) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 5(4)(a)(iii) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(iii) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(1)(b) inserted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 5(4)(a)(iv) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(iii) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 129(3)(4) repealed (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), ss. 72(1)(b), 93(2), Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(5)(a) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 96(2)(a) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(5)(d) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 96(2)(b) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(5)(d) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 5(4)(b) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(iii) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 129(5)(e) inserted (1.8.2019) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 8 para. 18; S.I. 2018/1226, reg. 4(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 129 extended (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 74(2); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.3."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/section/129",
    "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."
}