{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-polytechnic-and-the-queens-college-glasgow-closure-scotland-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-polytechnic-and-the-queens-college-glasgow-closure-scotland-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/643",
  "legislation_title": "The Glasgow Polytechnic and The Queen’s College, Glasgow (Closure) (Scotland) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-polytechnic-and-the-queens-college-glasgow-closure-scotland-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them:—\n“the Act” means the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;\n“the College” means The Queen’s College, Glasgow, being an institution designated under section 44 of the Act;\n“governing body”—\n(a) in relation to the Polytechnic, means The Governors of Glasgow Polytechnic, continued as a body corporate by regulation 3 of the Glasgow College of Technology (No.2) Regulations 1985;\n(b) in relation to the College, means The Queen’s College, Glasgow, a company registered under the Companies Acts;\n(c) in relation to the University, means the University Court of Glasgow Caledonian University, constituted by the Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland) Order of Council 1993;\n“the Polytechnic” means Glasgow Polytechnic, being an institution designated under section 44 of the Act;\n“the University” means Glasgow Caledonian University, being an institution established under section 46 and designated under section 44 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1164, amended by S.I. 1988/1715, 1990/2387."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Established as the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated) by Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 14th May 1908; now incorporated under its present name as certified by the Registrar of Companies on 30th May 1975."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/556."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The Order which established the University is the Glasgow Caledonian University (Establishment) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/423) and the Order which designated the University under section 44 of the Act is the Designation of Institutions of Higher Education (Scotland) Amendment Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/424)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/643/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:01:52.031684+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."
}