SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 39 Transitional provisions and savings
Part I General
Construction of pre-1944 Act references
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1
This paragraph applies to enactments passed before 1st April 1945.
2
Unless the context otherwise requires any such enactment shall be construed as if—
a
any reference to an elementary school or to a public elementary school (whether or not any reference is made there to the payment of parliamentary grants in respect of the school) were a reference to a county school or voluntary school, as the context may require;
b
any reference to a school certified by the Board of Education, in accordance with the provisions of Part V of the M1Education Act 1921, as suitable for providing education for blind, deaf, defective or epileptic children were a reference to a special school;
c
any reference to the managers of a school, in relation to a county school or voluntary school, were a reference to the governors (or, if the context so requires, the governing body) of the school;
d
any reference to elementary education or to higher education were a reference to such education as may be provided by a F1local authority in the exercise of their functions under sections 13 to 15 of this Act; and