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

e

any reference to a F1local authority, to a F1local authority for elementary education or to a F1local authority for higher education were a reference to a F1local authority within the meaning of this Act.