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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swansea-metropolitan-university-higher-education-corporation-dissolution-order-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2013/1729",
  "legislation_title": "The Swansea Metropolitan University Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swansea-metropolitan-university-higher-education-corporation-dissolution-order-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order dissolves the higher education corporation established to conduct Swansea Metropolitan University. Swansea Metropolitan University was established as a higher education corporation under section 122 of the Education Reform Act 1988 as Swansea Institute of Higher Education and changed its name to Swansea Metropolitan University with the consent of the Privy Council.\nThis Order provides for all property, rights and liabilities to which Swansea Metropolitan University was entitled or subject to immediately before its dissolution to be transferred to the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.\nThis Order also makes provision for section 127 of the Education Reform Act 1988 to apply in relation to persons who were employed by Swansea Metropolitan University immediately before 1 August 2013. Section 127 of the 1988 Act, as applied by this Order, makes provision for the transfer of such employees to the University of Wales Trinity Saint David on 1 August 2013 and in respect of associated rights and duties of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the transferred employees.\nThe University of Wales Trinity Saint David is a corporation established under Royal Charter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/1729/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:42:17.622412+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."
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