Technological Universtities Act 2018

44F

F24[Order for business and operation of higher education provider or part thereof to become and form part of technological university

44F. (1) The Minister, following a decision under section 44E(3)(a), shall by order appoint a day (in this Chapter referred to as the "appointed day") for the purposes of subsection (2).

(2) On the appointed day, the business and operation of the applicant higher education provider shall become and form part of the applicant technological university or, if the application under section 44A for an order under this section relates to a part only of that business and operation, that part of the business and operation of the applicant higher education provider shall become and form part of the applicant technological university on that day.

(3) An order under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.

(4) The applicant higher education provider shall arrange with the applicant technological university for the transfer, with effect from the appointed day, of its business and operation or that part of its business and operation, as the case may be, to the applicant technological university consequent upon the making of an order under this section.

(5) Other than in cases where a part only of the business and operation of an applicant higher education provider is the subject of an order under this section, references in any enactment (other than this Act) to the applicant higher education provider specified in an order under this section shall, on and after the appointed day, be construed as references to the applicant technological university which jointly applied, with that applicant higher education provider, for an order under this section.]

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Amendments:

F24

Inserted (12.10.2022) by Higher Education Authority Act 2022 (31/2022), s. 97, commenced on enactment, subject to transitional provision in s. 105.

Editorial Notes:

E9

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.11.2023) by Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 44F) (Appointed Day) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 356 of 2023), in effect as per art. 2.