The School Organisation (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2011

Amendment of the Education (Maintained Special Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999

4.—(1) The Education (Maintained Special Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 5—

(i) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) Any proposals for the establishment of a school must be published—

(a) on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term; and

(b) in at least one newspaper circulating in the area proposed to be served by the school.”;

(ii) before sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (3) insert—

“(za) on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term;”;

(iii) before sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (4) insert—

“(za) on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term;”; and

(iv) before sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (5) insert—

“(za) on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term;”;

(b) in regulation 8—

(i) in paragraph (2) for the words after “(as the case may be)”, substitute “within the period of one month after the date of publication of the proposals.”; and

(ii) in paragraph (3) for the words after “Schedule 6 to the Act within”, substitute “the period of two weeks after the end of the objection period.”; and

(c) in Schedule 4 for the modification to paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 substitute—

• “That paragraph shall have effect as if—

  • in sub-paragraph (1) for “section 28, 29 or 31” there were substituted “paragraph 10(4)”;

  • in sub-paragraph (2)(a) for “such period as may be prescribed” there were substituted “one month after the date on which the proposals were published”;

  • in sub-paragraph (2)(b) for “such period as may be prescribed” there were substituted “two weeks after the end of the objection period”;

  • in sub-paragraph (3) for “such period as may be prescribed” there were substituted “one month after the date on which the proposals were published””.

(1)

S.I. 1999/1780 as amended by S.I. 2001/3710 (W.306), S.I. 2005/3238 (W.243), S.I. 2009/48 (W.16) and S.I. 2010/1142 (W.101).