The Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2007

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 31 (C.6 )

EDUCATION

The Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2007

Made

30th January 2007

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(2) of the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006(1), hereby make the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2007.

Appointed days

2.  The days appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act are–

(a) 5th February 2007 for the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order but, where a particular purpose is specified in column 3 of that Schedule in relation to a provision, that provision shall only come into force for the purpose specified in that column; and

(b) 1st August 2007 for the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order, insofar as those provisions are not already in force.

ROBERT E BROWN

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

30th January 2007

Article 2(a)

SCHEDULE 1

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision of the Act	Subject matter	Purpose
Section 23	Repeals	Only in relation to repeal of sections 87A and 87B of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(2)
Schedule	Repeals	Only in relation to repeal of sections 87A and 87B of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980
Section 14	Procedures for appointment of headteacher or deputy and participation of a Parent Council	Only for the purpose of enabling regulations to be made to come into force not earlier than 1st August 2007

Article 2(b)

SCHEDULE 2

Column 1	Column 2
Provision of the Act	Subject matter
Section 2	Strategies for parental involvement
Section 3	Ambitions and objectives for a school
Section 4	Review of school performance
Section 6(7) to (10)	Scheme for establishment of a Parent Council
Section 8	Functions of a Parent Council
Section 9	Meetings of a Parent Council
Section 10	Financial powers of a Parent Council
Section 11	Duties of education authority and headteacher to a Parent Council etc.
Section 13	Headteacher’s report to Parent Council, Combined Parent Council or Parent Forum
Section 14	Procedures for appointment of headteacher or deputy and participation of a Parent Council
Section 15	Complaints procedure
Section 16(8) to (12) and (15) to (16)	Establishment etc. of Combined Parent Council
Section 17	Withdrawal from represented schools
Section 18	Abolition of School Boards
Section 23	Repeals
Schedule	Repeals

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force the remaining provisions of the Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 (“the Act”). Schedule 1 to the Order, introduced by article 2(a), provides for section 23 of the Act, together with the schedule to the Act, being brought into force on 5th February 2007, for the purpose of the repeal of sections 87A (appointment of principal teachers) and 87B (selection of teachers) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980. Those sections were inserted by section 74 of the Self Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989. Section 87A was suspended by section 50 of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (2003 asp 1). The Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (Principal Teachers) Order 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/607) substituted for the one year period specified in section 50 during which the requirement of section 87A to advertise a vacant principal teacher post is suspended, a further period, which expires on 10th February 2007. This Order brings into force provision for repeal of section 87A, together with section 87B, which relates to the selection of teachers, on 5th February 2007. Section 14 is brought into force on the same date for the purpose of making regulations. All of the Act’s remaining provisions are otherwise brought into force on 1st August 2007. This is provided for by article 2(b), which introduces Schedule 2 to the Order.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force by Commencement Order made before the date of this Order:–

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.S.I. No.
Section 1	12th September 2006	2006/454
Section 5
Section 6(1) to (6)
Section 7
Section 12
Section 16(1) to (7) and (13) to (14)
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22

(1)

2006 asp 8.

(2)

1980 c. 44. Sections 87A and 87B were inserted by the Self Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39), section 74.