Explanatory Notes

Deregulation Act 2015

2015 CHAPTER 20

26 March 2015

Commentary on Sections

Schedule 15: Further and higher education: reduction of burdens

Part 1: Measures applying to England and Wales

Transfer of property etc

775.Paragraph 4(2) to (4) omits sections 23 to 26, 32, 33 and 34 of the FHEA 1992. Sections 23 to 26 make provision about the transfer of property, rights and liabilities to further education corporations established to conduct certain other institutions in the education sector. Sections 32 and 33 make provision about the transfer of property, rights and liabilities to designated institutions. Section 34 confers power on the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers by order to provide for property of a local authority to be made available for use by institutions within the further education sector. The sections which are being repealed concern the initial incorporation of further education corporations and are now considered to be obsolete. Paragraph 4(5) makes consequential amendments and repeals.