School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013

Closure of school E+W

14 (1) At any time during the interim period, the interim executive board may, if it thinks fit, make a report to the local authority and the Welsh Ministers recommending that the school be discontinued, and stating the reasons for that recommendation. E+W

(2) The interim executive board may not—

(a) publish under section 43 proposals to discontinue the school, or

(b) serve notice under section 80.

(3) Sub-paragraph (4) applies if during the interim period—

(a) the Welsh Ministers give a direction under section 16 or 81 in relation to the school, or

(b) the local authority determine to discontinue the school.

(4) The interim period is to continue until the discontinuance date, even where it would otherwise end before that date.

(5) In this paragraph “the discontinuance date” means one of the following (as the case may be)—

(a) the date on which proposals for discontinuing the school are implemented under Part 1 of Schedule 3;

(b) the date on which the school is discontinued under section 80;

(c) the date specified in the direction under section 16 or 81(1).

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 14 in force at 20.2.2014 by S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(e) (with art. 3)