
1 
This Order may be cited as the Education (Higher Education Corporations) (Wales) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st October 1991.
2 
There shall be established, as from 1st October 1991, bodies corporate by the names given in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order to conduct, as from 1st April 1992, the institutions specified opposite in column 2 being institutions which appear to the Secretary of State to satisfy the criteria set out in section 122(1) of the Education Reform Act 1988 and, save in the case of the Welsh College of Music and Drama, whose respective full-time equivalent enrolment numbers for courses of higher education appear to him to exceed 350.
3 
1st April 1992 is hereby appointed as the transfer date for each such corporation for the purposes of section 126 of that Act.
4 

(1) In relation to each such corporation the local authority specified opposite in column 3 of the said Schedule shall be the nominating authority for the number of initial nominee members specified opposite in column 4.
(2) In this article “the nominating authority” means the local authority entitled to nominate one or more local authority nominees as initial nominee members of a corporation.
SCHEDULE


Corporation Institution Nominating Authority Number of initial nominee members
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education Cardiff Institute of Higher Education South Glamorgan County Council 1
Coleg Normal Bangor Higher Education Corporation Y Coleg Normal, Bangor Gwynedd County Council 1
Gwent College of Higher Education Gwent College of Higher Education Gwent County Council 1
The Polytechnic of Wales The Polytechnic of Wales Mid Glamorgan County Council 2
Swansea Institute of Higher Education West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education West Glamorgan County Council 1
The Welsh College of Music and Drama The Welsh College of Music and Drama South Glamorgan County Council 1
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
30th August 1991