(1)This section applies for the purposes of grouping a new school under section 89 with effect from the relevant time.
(2)Any provision of sections 89 to 91 which operates by reference to the existence or absence of any particular circumstances in the case of a school, or to the status of a school, shall be treated (so far as necessary for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) above) as so operating by reference to the position as it will be at the relevant time.
(3)In addition section 91 shall have effect for those purposes as if any reference to a school’s governing body were a reference to its temporary governing body.
(4)In this section “the relevant time”, in relation to a new school, means the time when the requirement for there to be an instrument of government for the school takes effect under section 99.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 100 excluded (1.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/3097, reg. 8(d)