The Education (School Inspection) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 784 (W.81)

EDUCATION, WALES

The Education (School Inspection) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Made

16th March 2004

Coming into force

1st September 2004

The National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 15(2), 17(2)(a), 21(2)(a) and 45(3) of, and paragraphs 2(2) and 3(1) of Schedule 4 to the Schools Inspection Act 1996(1), and now vested in it(2).

Name, commencement, application

1.—(1) These Regulations are called the Education (School Inspection) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004 and come into force on 1st September 2004.

(2) They apply only in relation to Wales.

Amendment of the Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 1998

2.—(1) The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 1998(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 7(2)—

(a) for the words “five weeks” substitute the words “35 working days”, and

(b) delete the words “, or, where it is necessary to provide a translation into Welsh or English, the period of seven weeks from that date”.

(3) In regulation 8(1)—

(a) for the word “forty” substitute the words “forty five”, and

(b) delete the words “, or where it is necessary to provide a translation into Welsh or English, the period of forty five working days from that date”.

(4) In regulation 13(2)—

(a) for the words “five weeks” substitute the words “35 working days”, and

(b) delete the words “or within seven weeks from that date where it is necessary to provide a translation into Welsh or English,”.

(5) In regulation 13(3)—

(a) for the word “forty” substitute the words “forty five”, and

(b) delete the words “or within forty five working days from that date where it is necessary to provide a translation into Welsh or English,”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(4)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

16th March 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 1998 so as to change the period within which an inspection report must be completed to 35 working days in every case, and the period within which an action plan must be prepared to 45 working days in every case.

(1)

1996 c. 57. For the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations” see section 46(1).

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1998/1866 as amended by S.I. 1999/1440, 2001/3710 and section 73 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21).

(4)

1998 c. 38.