Textual Amendments
F1Pt. III (ss. 183-311) repealed (1.10.1998, 1.4.1999 and otherwise 1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1)(3), Sch. 30 para. 70, Sch.31 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1998/2212, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt.I; S.I. 1999/120, art. 2(2), Sch. 2; S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(1), Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with savings as specified in those S.I.s and subject to savings in S.I. 1999/704)
(1)This section applies where—
(a)proposals for acquisition of grant-maintained status in respect of a school have been approved, and
(b)a local authority have entered into a contract to which section 206 applies in contravention of that section.
(2)The [F2Education Transfer Council] may by notice in writing served on the other party to the contract repudiate the contract at any time before it is performed.
(3)A repudiation under subsection (2) shall have effect—
(a)where it is made after the date of implementation of the proposals, as if the local authority (and not the governing body) were party to the contract, and
(b)as if the repudiation were made by the local authority.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in s. 207(2) substituted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 31, s. 136 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2212, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I