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3(1)This paragraph applies to any foundation or voluntary controlled school [F1in England] which has a religious character.E+W
(2)Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the required provision for religious education in the case of pupils at the school is provision for religious education—
(a)in accordance with any arrangements made under sub-paragraph (3), or
(b)subject to any such arrangements, in accordance with an agreed syllabus adopted for the school or for those pupils.
(3)Where the parents of any pupils at the school request that they may receive religious education—
(a)in accordance with any provisions of the trust deed relating to the school, or
(b)where provision for that purpose is not made by such a deed, in accordance with the tenets of the religion or religious denomination specified in relation to the school under section 69(4),
the foundation governors shall (unless they are satisfied that because of any special circumstances it would be unreasonable to do so) make arrangements for securing that such religious education is given to those pupils in the school during not more than two periods in each week.
(4)If immediately before the appointed day the school was a grant-maintained school (within the meaning of the M1Education Act 1996), and in relation to the school or any pupils at the school the appropriate agreed syllabus as defined by section 382 of that Act was a syllabus falling within subsection (1)(c) of that section, then until—
(a)the end of such period as the Secretary of State may by order prescribe, or
(b)such earlier date as the governing body may determine,
that syllabus shall be treated for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(b) as an agreed syllabus adopted for the school or (as the case may be) those pupils.
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F1Words in Sch. 19 para. 3(1) inserted (30.4.2021) by Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 4), ss. 73, 84(1), Sch. 2 para. 42(5)
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I1Sch. 19 para. 3 wholly in force at 1.9.1999; Sch. 19 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent see. s. 145(3); Sch. 19 para. 3(4) in force for certain purposes at 1.10.1998 by S.I. 1998/2212, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I; Sch. 19 para. 3 in force at 1.9.1999 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 3-5, Schs. 5-7).
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