(1)Regulations may provide for any enactments relating to grant-maintained schools (or schools including grant-maintained schools), including enactments relating to the acquisition of grant-maintained status, to have effect in relation to—
(a)the transfer to an education association under section 220 of this Act of responsibility for the conduct of any school and the subsequent conduct of the school by the association,
(b)the discontinuance under section 225 of this Act of any school conducted by an education association, and
(c)the transfer to a governing body incorporated in pursuance of proposals published by virtue of section 224 of this Act of responsibility for the conduct of any school conducted by an education association,
with such modifications as seem to the Secretary of State to be necessary or desirable.
(2)Subsection (1) above does not apply in relation to schools which are or were maintained special schools; but regulations may provide for sections 220 to 227 of this Act to have effect in relation to any such schools as they have effect in relation to county schools but with such modifications as seem to the Secretary of State to be necessary or desirable.
(3)Regulations may make such provision as the Secretary of State considers necessary or desirable in relation to—
(a)the transfer to an education association under section 220 of this Act of responsibility for the conduct of any maintained special school and the subsequent conduct of the school by the association, and
(b)where a former maintained special school is being conducted by an education association, the discontinuance of the school under section 225 of this Act.
(4)In relation to any former maintained special school being conducted by an education association—
(a)section 186 of this Act shall apply as it applies to any maintained special school, but as if the reference in subsection (1) to the school ceasing to be maintained by the local education authority were to its ceasing to be conducted by an education association, and
(b)section 224 of this Act shall apply—
(i)as if the reference in subsection (1) to a grant-maintained school were to a grant-maintained special school,
(ii)as if the reference in subsection (2) to section 32 of this Act were to section 186 of this Act, and
(iii)with the omission of subsection (3).