Education and Inspections Act 2006

189 The appropriate authority by whom commencement order is made U.K.

(1) This section has effect for determining who is the appropriate authority for the purposes of section 188(3).

(2) In relation to the provisions specified in subsection (3), the appropriate authority is—

(a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State, and

(b) in relation to Wales, the Assembly.

(3) Those provisions are—

• section 1 (duties in relation to high standards and fulfilment of potential);

• section 4 (duty to identify children not receiving education);

• in section 37 (staff at foundation or voluntary schools with religious character), subsections (1) and (2)(a);

• section 38 (general duties of governing body of maintained school);

• section 39 (general restriction on selection by ability);

• section 40 (code for school admissions);

• section 43 (duty of governing body to implement decisions relating to admissions);

• section 44 (prohibition on interviews);

• section 45 (admission arrangements for schools with religious character: consultation and objections);

• section 47 (objections to admission arrangements);

• section 53 (schools with pre-1998 arrangements for selection by ability or aptitude);

• section 55 (right of sixth-form pupils to be excused from attendance at religious worship);

• section 56 (charges for music tuition);

• section 57 (school funding);

• Chapter 1 of Part 7 (school discipline);

• sections 97, 98 and 99 (parenting contracts and parenting orders);

• section 102 (reintegration interviews);

• section 108 (removal of excluded pupils to designated premises);

• section 164 (provision of information about children receiving funded education outside school);

• section 165 (power of members of staff of further education institutions to use force);

• section 166 (collaboration arrangements: maintained schools and further education bodies);

• section 167 (consultation with young pupils);

• sections 169 to 171 (prohibition on participation in management of independent schools);

• section 173 (special educational needs co-ordinators);

• Schedule 5.

(4) In relation to the provisions specified in subsection (5), the appropriate authority is the Assembly.

(5) Those provisions are—

• section 156 (removal of duty to inspect performance of certain Assembly functions);

• section 175 (miscellaneous amendments relating to Wales);

• Schedule 17;

• the repeal in Part 5 of Schedule 18 of section 38 of the Children Act 2004 (c. 31), and section 184 so far as relating to that repeal.

(6) In relation to a repeal contained in Part 6 of Schedule 18, and section 184 so far as relating to such a repeal, the appropriate authority is the appropriate authority for the purposes of section 188(3) in relation to the provision on which the repeal is consequential.

(7) In relation to the other provisions to which section 188(3) applies, the appropriate authority is the Secretary of State.