PART 3SCHOOL ORGANISATION

CHAPTER 2SCHOOL ORGANISATION PROPOSALS

Establishment, alteration and discontinuance of maintained schools

42Proposals to alter mainstream schools

(1)

A local authority may make proposals—

(a)

to make a regulated alteration to a community school;

(b)

with the consent of the Welsh Ministers, to make an alteration described in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 (opening or closing a school's sixth form) to a voluntary or foundation school;

(c)

to make an alteration described in paragraph 10, 11, 12 or 13 of Schedule 2 (increasing and reducing capacity) to a voluntary or foundation school if that school does not have a religious character;

(d)

to make a regulated alteration to a maintained nursery school.

(2)

The governing body of a foundation or voluntary school may make proposals to make a regulated alteration to the school.