London Government Act 1963

31 Primary, secondary and further education in Greater London

(1) For the purposes of the Education Acts 1944 to 1962—

(a) the development plan under section 11 of the Education Act 1944 in force for the county of London immediately before 1st April 1965, so far as it relates to the Inner London Education Area, shall continue on and after that date to be the development plan approved by the Minister of Education for that Area ;

(b) until replaced by a revised development plan submitted to and approved by the said Minister under subsection (2) of this section, any development plan under the said section 11 in force immediately before 1st April 1965 which relates, or so far as it relates, to the area of any outer London borough shall, or, if more than one, shall together, constitute as from that date the development plan approved by the said Minister for that borough;

(c) subject to subsection (4) of this section, any scheme of further education under section 42 of the said Act of 1944 in force immediately before 1st April 1965 which relates, or so far as it relates, to the Inner London Education Area or to the area of any outer London borough, shall, or, if more than one, shall together, continue to be, or, as the case may be, constitute, on and after that date the scheme of further education approved by the Minister of Education under the said section 42 for that Education Area or, as the case may be, that borough.

(2) The council of each outer London borough shall, by 1st April 1966 or within such period thereafter as the Minister of Education may in any particular case allow, prepare and submit to that Minister a revised development plan for the borough for the purposes of the said Acts of 1944 to 1962 which shall be in such form and contain such particulars with respect to existing primary and secondary schools in their area and as to the action the authority propose to take to secure that there shall be sufficient schools available for their area as that Minister may require; and subsections (3) to (5) of section 11 of the said Act of 1944 shall apply to any revised development plan submitted under this subsection as they apply to a development plan submitted under subsection (1) of that section.

(3) Before preparing a revised development plan for their borough under subsection (2) of this section, the council of each outer London borough shall consult with any other local education authority whose area is contiguous with that borough with a view to ensuring that the revised plan has regard both to the use made of schools outside that borough by children resident therein and to the use of schools within that borough by children resident outside it.

(4) Within such period as the Minister of Education may allow, the council of each outer London borough shall for the purposes of section 42 of the said Act of 1944 submit to that Minister a restatement of the scheme or schemes of further education referred to in subsection (1)(c) of this section so far as relating to that borough; and that restatement when submitted to that Minister shall be deemed for the purposes of the said section 42 to be a scheme of further education which has been submitted to that Minister under subsection (1) of that section.

(5) As from 1st April 1965 it shall be the duty of the local education authority for any area in Greater London to maintain, and that authority shall not except in accordance with section 13 or 14 of the said Act of 1944 or subsection (6) of this section cease to maintain, any county or voluntary school maintained immediately before that date by the former local education authority for that area, being a school which is situated in that area or of which that former local education authority were, or in case of dispute are determined by the Minister of Education to have been, the main user immediately before that date.

(6) Any authority who by virtue of section 30(1) of this Act are, or are to become, the local education authority for any area in Greater London may agree with any other local education authority for the maintenance by that other authority of any school which under subsection (5) of this section would otherwise fall to be maintained by the first-mentioned authority.

(7) In the case of any school maintained immediately before 1st April 1965 by a local education authority who in consequence of this Act will not continue to maintain it on and after that date—

(a) any instrument or rules of management or instrument or articles of government made by an order under section 17 of the said Act of 1944 and any arrangement made under section 20 of that Act, being an order or arrangement in force immediately before that date, shall continue in force on and after that date, subject to any further such order or arrangement and to any agreement under subsection (6) of this section, as if—

(i) any reference therein to that local education authority were a reference to the authority by whom by virtue of subsection (5) or (6) of this section the school falls to be maintained on and after that date or, if there is no such authority or if there is any doubt as to the identity of that authority, such local education authority as the Minister of Education may direct;

(ii) any reference therein to any other existing local authority, being the council of a metropolitan borough, non-county borough or urban district to whom section 3 (1) (b) of this Act applies, were a reference, if the school falls to be maintained by the council of a borough, to that council or, in any other case, to the council of the London borough which includes the area of that existing authority or, if different parts of that area are included in different London boroughs, the council of such of those boroughs (or, if more than one, the councils thereof acting jointly) as appears to the local education authority to be served by the school;

(b) any direction of the local education authority under section 22 of the said Act of 1944 and any agreed syllabus of religious instruction under section 29 of that Act, being a direction or syllabus in force immediately before that date, shall continue in force on and after that date until replaced by a further direction under the said section 22 or, as the case may be, by the adoption of a new syllabus under the said section 29.

(8) For the purposes of any duty imposed by or under the Education Acts 1944 to 1962 or section 3 (4) of the Local Government Act 1958 with respect to the admission of pupils to—

(a) county or voluntary schools; or

(b) institutions maintained or assisted by local education authorities for the purpose of providing further education,

it shall not be a ground for refusing a pupil admission to, or excluding a pupil from, any such school or institution maintained or assisted by a local education authority in Greater London that the pupil resides in the area of some other local education authority if that area is within, or is contiguous with any part of, Greater London; and where any provision for further education is made by a local education authority in Greater London in respect of a pupil who resides in Greater London, or in some other local education authority's area which is contiguous with any part of Greater London, but belongs to the area of a local education authority other than the providing authority, and the Minister of Education is satisfied that, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, it is right so to do, that Minister may on the application of the providing authority direct that section 7(1) of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 (which relates to the recoupment of the providing authority by the authority to whose area the pupil belongs) shall apply notwithstanding that the last-mentioned authority have not consented to the making of the provision.

(9) Section 7(4) and (5) of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 (which relate to the determination of the local education authority to whose area any pupil belongs for the purposes of further education) shall apply for the purposes of subsection (8) of this section as they apply for the purposes of the said section 7.

(10) In relation to any school maintained by the Inner London Education Authority, the expression “minor authority ” in the said Act of 1944 shall be construed as a reference to any of the following councils whose area appears to that Authority to be served by the school, that is to say, the councils of the inner London boroughs and the Common Council; and before approving any proposals submitted to him under section 13 of the said Act of 1944 with respect to any school which is, or is to be, situated within the City or an inner London borough, the Minister of Education shall afford to the Common Council or, as the case may be, the borough council, an opportunity of making representations to him with respect to the proposal.