Education Act 1980
1980 CHAPTER 20
An Act to amend the law relating to education.
[3rd April 1980]
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Commencement Information
School governmentE+W
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Admission to schoolsE+W
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School attendance ordersE+W
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Establishment, discontinuance and eration of schoolsE+W
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Awards and grantsE+W+N.I.
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20 Industrial scholarships. E+W+N.I.
(1)The Secretary of State may award industrial scholarships or make payments to any other person in respect of the award of such scholarships by that person.
(2)In this section “industrial scholarships” means scholarships (however described) tenable by persons undertaking full-time courses of higher education provided by a university, college or other institution in the United Kingdom, being courses which appear to the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the person awarding the scholarships to be relevant to a career in industry.
(3)In subsection (2) above the reference to a full-time course includes a reference to a course consisting of ernate periods of—
(a)full-time study in the university, college or institution in question; and
(b)associated industrial, professional or commercial experience;
and the reference in that subsection to a course provided by a university, college or institution in the United Kingdom includes a reference to a course provided by such a university, college or institution in conjunction with a university, college or other institution in another country.
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School mealsE+W
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Nursery educationE+W
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MiscellaneousE+W
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33 Discrimination by local education authorities.E+W
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(2)In section 23(2) of the said Act of 1975 and section 18(2) of the said Act of 1976 (discrimination by education authorities) for the words “the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1974” and “the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1975” respectively there shall be substituted the words “ the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1980 ”.
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Textual Amendments
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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SupplementaryE+W+N.I.
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36 Expenses.E+W
There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament—
(a)any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under this Act; and
(b)any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of such moneys under any other Act.
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38 Citation, construction, repeals and extent. E+W+N.I.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Education Act 1980.
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[(3)This Act shall, in its application to England and Wales, be construed as one with the Education Act 1996.]
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(7)[In this Act section 20 and this section extend to Northern Ireland,] but save as aforesaid this Act extends to England and Wales only.
Editorial Information
Textual Amendments
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1E+W
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SCHEDULE 2E+W
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SCHEDULE 3E+W
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SCHEDULE 4E+W
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Section 19.
SCHEDULE 5E+W PROVISIONS SUBSTITUTED IN THE EDUCATION ACT 1962
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SCHEDULE 6 E+W
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SCHEDULE 7E+W
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