TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION ACT 1975 - SECT 9
TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION ACT 1975 - SECT 9
(1) The Minister may
establish and maintain such colleges as he or she considers necessary or
desirable for the purposes of providing technical and further education.
(2) The Minister may,
where in his or her opinion the public interest does not require the
continuance of any college, close the college permanently or temporarily and
sell or otherwise dispose of the land, buildings, equipment and facilities
acquired or set apart for the purposes of that college.
(3) The Minister may
establish and maintain such institutions as he or she considers necessary for
the education and training of those who are to give instruction or training in
colleges.
(4) The Minister may
establish and maintain boarding houses for the accommodation of students at
any college or any institution established under subsection (3).
(5) The Minister
may—
(a) make
available, on such conditions as the Minister thinks fit, any land, buildings,
equipment or facilities for the purposes of technical and further education;
(b)
provide assistance to community bodies (whether by the making of grants or
loans or otherwise) on conditions that secure for colleges rights to make use
of land, buildings, equipment or facilities of the bodies.
(7) The Minister may,
subject to and in accordance with the Land Acquisition Act 1969 ,
acquire land for the purposes of this Act.
(8) Where land,
buildings, equipment, facilities or services used or provided for or
incidentally to the provision of technical and further education can, in the
opinion of the Minister, also be used or provided for commercial, community or
other purposes without substantially detracting from the provision of
technical and further education, the Minister may, by lease, licence or other
arrangement, authorise their use or provision for those other purposes.
(9) The Minister
may—
(a) in
order to provide students with practical training and experience in the course
of technical and further education—
(i)
establish or carry on an enterprise or activity, for
commercial, community or other purposes, in which students are to participate;
(ii)
provide for the participation of students, on such
conditions as the Minister thinks fit, in a commercial, community or other
enterprise or activity carried on by some other person or body;
(b)
provide consultancy or other services, for a fee or otherwise, in any area in
which officers or employees appointed under this Act or employed in the
Department have particular expertise developed (whether wholly or partly) in
the course of, or incidentally to, the provision of technical and further
education;
(c)
undertake or provide for the development or use, for commercial, community or
other purposes, of any intellectual property, product or process created or
developed (whether wholly or partly) in the course of, or incidentally to, the
provision of technical and further education.