2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, where before the reorganisation date a transferee authority intend to do on or after that date anything mentioned in section 12(1) of the Education Act 1980(1) (establishment, alteration and discontinuance of schools by local education authorities) that section shall apply in relation to that authority before the reorganisation date as it applies in relation to a local education authority, and sections 14 and 16 of that Act (supplementary provisions) and sections 272 and 229(3) of the Education Act 1993 (power of governing bodies of county school to propose change of character etc.) shall apply accordingly.
(2) In their application by virtue of paragraph (1) above sections 12(1)(d) and 16(1A)(c) of the Education Act 1980 and sections 272(1)(b) and (c) and 229(3)(b) of the Education Act 1993 shall have effect as if the references in those sections to the area or (in the case of section 16(1A)(c)) to the same area were references to the area of the transferee authority.
1980 c. 20. Section 12(1) and (3) was amended and subsections (1A) and (1B) were inserted by section 229 of the Education Act 1993 (c. 35). Section 12(2) was amended and subsection (2A) was inserted by section 31(4) of the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40).