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(4)Where in pursuance of section 339(1)(b) a local education authority serve notice of proposals for a maintained special school to cease to be an establishment which admits pupils of one sex only, the responsible body shall be treated as having applied for the making by the Secretary of State of a transitional exemption order, and the Secretary of State may make such an order accordingly.
(5)Where proposals made by the Secretary of State under section 502—
(a)are for a school to cease to be an establishment which admits pupils of one sex only, and
(b)have effect as mentioned in section 504(3),
the responsible body shall be treated as having applied for the making by the Secretary of State of a transitional exemption order, and the Secretary of State may make such an order accordingly.
(6)In this section—
“the 1975 Act” means the M1Sex Discrimination Act 1975,
“responsible body” has the same meaning as in section 22 of the 1975 Act, and
“transitional exemption order” has the same meaning as in section 27 of the 1975 Act,
and references to proposals for a school to cease to be an establishment which admits pupils of one sex only are references to proposals which are or include proposals for such an alteration in a school’s admissions arrangements as is mentioned in section 27(1) of the 1975 Act (single-sex establishments becoming co-educational).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 552 repealed (1.4.1999 to the extent of repeal for s. 552(1)-(3) and otherwiseprosp.) by 1998 c. 31, ss. 140(1)(3), 145(3), Sch. 30 para. 167, Sch.31 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (subject to savings in s. 553(3) by S.I. 1999/704, reg. 4(2)
Marginal Citations