Education Act 1993 (repealed)

Introductory E+W

204 Extension of the Education (Schools) Act 1992. E+W

(1) This Chapter, in its application to inspections under section 9 of the M1 Education (Schools) Act 1992 or by any member of the Inspectorate, applies to the inspection of any county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school.

(2) In this Part of this Act—

• “appropriate appointing authority” means, in relation to any aided or special agreement school—

  (a)

  the appropriate diocesan authority, if it is a Church of England school, Church in Wales school or Roman Catholic Church school, and

  (b)

  in any other case, the person who appoints the foundation governors,

• “appropriate authority”, in relation to any county, voluntary or maintained special school, means the school’s governing body or, if the governing body do not have a delegated budget, the local education authority and, in relation to a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school, means the school’s governing body,

• “inspection by a member of the Inspectorate” means a section 9 inspection carried out by a member of the Inspectorate or an inspection under section 2(2)(b), 3(1), 6(2)(b) or 7(1) of that Act,

• “member of the Inspectorate” means the Chief Inspector, any of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools in England or, as the case may be, Wales and any additional inspector, and

• “section 9 inspection” means an inspection under section 9 of that Act;

and other expressions used in this Part and that Act have the same meaning in this Part as in that Act.

(3) For the purposes of this Part of this Act, special measures are required to be taken in relation to a school if the school is failing or likely to fail to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education.

(4) Paragraphs 9 to 12 of Schedule 2 to that Act shall cease to have effect in relation to county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained and grant-maintained special schools.

Marginal Citations

M1 1992 c. 38.