Education Act 1993

254 Duty to reconvene conference on agreed syllabus of religious education

(1) Within six months of the commencement of this section the local education authority shall reconvene any conference—

(a) which they have convened for the purpose set out in paragraph 1 or 12 of the Fifth Schedule to the [1944 c. 31.] Education Act 1944 (procedure for preparing and bringing into operation an agreed syllabus of religious education) or section 11(8) of the Education Reform Act 1988 (standing advisory councils on religious education), and

(b) to which subsection (2) below applies.

(2) This subsection applies to any conference—

(a) which has not made a recommendation under paragraph 9 or 13(2) of that Schedule, and

(b) in respect of which the authority have not made a report under paragraph 10 or 13(4) of that Schedule.

(3) Where a conference is convened (or reconvened) after the commencement of this section, paragraph 2 of that Schedule shall have effect as if at the end of the proviso there were inserted “and the number of persons appointed to any committee under that sub-paragraph to represent each denomination or religion required to be represented shall, so far as consistent with the efficient discharge of the committee’s functions, reflect broadly the proportionate strength of that denomination or religion in the area”.