Education Act 1993 (repealed)

Religious education, worship etc.: general E+W

146 Reconsideration of agreed syllabus: consultation with grant-maintained schools. E+W

Where any agreed syllabus for the time being adopted by a local education authority which is in use at a grant-maintained school within the area of the authority (or for any pupils at such a school) falls to be reconsidered under the Fifth Schedule to the M1 Education Act 1944 (procedure for preparing and bringing into operation agreed syllabus for religious instruction), the conference convened under that Schedule to reconsider the syllabus shall consult the governing body of the grant-maintained school before making any recommendation.

Marginal Citations

M1 1944 c. 31.

147 Standing advisory councils on religious education. E+W

(1) For section 11(3)(b) of the M2 Education Reform Act 1988 (standing advisory councils on religious education) there is substituted—

“(b) a person appointed by the governing bodies of the grant-maintained schools within the area of the authority to which section 138 or 139 of the Education Act 1993 applies.”

(2) At the end of section 11 of the M3 Education Reform Act 1988 there is added—

“(11) The council shall send to the head teacher of any grant-maintained school to which section 138 of the Education Act 1993 applies and which is in the area of the authority a copy of advice which they give to the authority upon matters connected with religious worship.

(12) The council shall send a copy of advice which they give to the authority on the religious education to be given in accordance with an agreed syllabus to the head teacher of any grant-maintained school which is in the area of the authority and which—

(a) is required, by virtue of section 138 or 140 of the Education Act 1993 (religious education in certain grant-maintained schools), to provide religious education in accordance with an agreed syllabus, or

(b) was a controlled school immediately before it became grant-maintained.”

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 147(1) restricted by S.I. 1994/507, art. 3, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 4

Marginal Citations

M2 1988 c. 40.

M3 1988 c. 40.

148 Cases where no requirement for Christian collective worship. E+W

In section 12 of the M4 Education Reform Act 1988 (determination by advisory councils of the cases in which the requirement for Christian collective worship is not to apply)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) for “the head teacher of any county school” there is substituted—

“(a) the head teacher of any county school; or

(b) the head teacher of any grant-maintained school to which section 138 of the Education Act 1993 applies and which is in the area of the local education authority which constituted the council”, and

(ii) after “this Act” there is inserted “ or, as the case may be, section 138(2) of the Education Act 1993 ”,

(b) in subsection (4) after “section 7” there is inserted “ of this Act or, as the case may be, section 138 of the Education Act 1993 ”,

(c) in subsection (9) after “county school” there is inserted “ or of any grant-maintained school to which subsection (1) above applies ”, and

(d) after subsection (10) there is inserted—

“(11) Where an application is made under subsection (1)(a) above in respect of a school which becomes a grant-maintained school before the application is determined, it shall, unless withdrawn by the head teacher, continue to be considered as if made under subsection (1)(b) above.”

Marginal Citations

M4 1988 c. 40.