2.—(1) In relation to any time before the appointed day (as defined in section 20(7) of the 1998 Act)(1) the 1998 Act shall have effect subject to the modifications set out in paragraphs (2) to (10) below.
(2) (a) Sections 14 to 17 shall have effect as if any reference in those provisions to a maintained school were a reference to a county, controlled, maintained special or maintained nursery school;
(b)section 18 shall have effect as if any reference to a maintained school were a reference to a county, voluntary, maintained special or maintained nursery school; and
(c)section 19 shall have effect as if any reference to a maintained school were a reference to a county, voluntary, maintained special, maintained nursery or grant maintained school.
(3) Section 17(1)(b) shall have effect as if the reference to Part II (of the 1998 Act) were a reference to Chapter V of Part II of the 1996 Act.
(4) Section 17(6) shall have effect as if the reference to the suspension (of a delegated budget) were a reference to such a suspension under section 117 of the 1996 Act, but section 118 of that Act (right of appeal) shall not apply to any such suspension.
(5) Section 18 shall have effect as if –
(a)the reference in subsection (5) to Part II of Schedule 9 (to the 1998 Act) were a reference to Schedule 8 to the 1996 Act; and
(b)the references in subsection (6)(a) to section 17(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 15 to, the 1998 Act were references to section 117 of the 1996 Act.
(6) Section 19(1) shall have effect, until 1st April 1999, as if the words “or to the Funding Agency for Schools” were inserted after the words “the local education authority”.
(7) Section 19(2)(a) shall have effect, in the case of a grant maintained school, until 1st April 1999, as if the words “the Funding Agency for Schools” were substituted for the words “the local education authority”.
(8) Section 19(2)(b) and (c) shall have effect as if any reference to a voluntary aided school included a reference to a grant maintained school having foundation governors.
(9) Section 19(4) shall have effect –
(a)in the case of a county, voluntary, maintained special or maintained nursery school, as if the references to sections 29 to 33 (of the 1998 Act) were references to sections 167 and 173 of the 1996 Act; and
(b)until 1st April 1999, in the case of a grant maintained school, as if any reference to the local education authority were a reference to the Funding Agency for Schools; and nothing in section 268 of the 1996 Act shall apply to the discontinuance of a grant maintained school.
(10) Section 19(5) shall have effect, until 1st April 1999, as if any reference to the local education authority ceasing to maintain a school included, in the case of a grant maintained school, a reference to the Funding Agency for Schools ceasing to maintain it.
The appointed day is 1st September 1999 by virtue of S.I. 1998 No. 2083.