Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them:

• “academic council” means the body of persons appointed in accordance with article 16;

• “Director” means the Director or any person authorised, whether for the purposes of this Order or otherwise, for the time being to act as Director, as the case may be, of the institution and “Deputy-Director” shall be construed accordingly;

• “the institution” means The Glasgow School of Art being an institution designated under section 44 of the Act;

• “the Act” means the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;

• “the 1988 Regulations” means the Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1988^f1.

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered article, Part or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the article, Part or Schedule, as the case may be, which bears that number in this Order, and any reference to a numbered paragraph in an article of, or Schedule to, the Order is to be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that article or, as the case may be, that Schedule.