Education Act 1996

132Separate departments of school to be treated as separate schools

(1)Where a county, voluntary or maintained special school is organised in two or more separate departments, each with a head teacher, any provision made by or under this Act which confers functions on or in relation to the head teacher of the school shall have effect as if each department were a separate school.

(2)Subsection (1) does not apply where the school’s articles of government provide otherwise.