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(1)Subsections (5) to (7) below (“the staff transfer provisions”) apply where on the appointed day—
(a)a special agreement school becomes a voluntary aided school, or
(b)a grant-maintained school becomes a community or voluntary controlled school, or
(c)a grant-maintained special school becomes a community special school,
in accordance with Schedule 2.
(2)Subject to subsection (3), the staff transfer provisions apply in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) to any person who immediately before the appointed day—
(a)is employed by the [F1local authority] to work solely at an existing school within subsection (1)(a), or
(b)is employed by the [F1local authority] to work at such an existing school and is designated for the purposes of this subsection by an order made by the Secretary of State, or
(c)is employed by the governing body of an existing school within subsection (1)(b) or (c).
(3)The staff transfer provisions do not apply—
(a)to any person employed as mentioned in subsection (2) whose contract of employment terminates on the day immediately preceding the appointed day; or
(b)to any person employed as mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (b) who before that day—
(i)has been appointed or assigned by the [F1local authority] to work solely at another school as from that day, or
(ii)has been withdrawn from work at the school with effect from that day.
(4)A person who before the appointed day has been appointed or assigned by—
(a)the [F1local authority], or
(b)the governing body of an existing school within subsection (1)(b) or (c),
to work at a school, or (as the case may be) at the existing school, as from that day shall be treated for the purposes of this section as if he had been employed by the authority or governing body immediately before that day to do such work at the school as he would have been required to do on or after that day under his contract of employment with the authority or that body.
(5)The contract of employment between a person to whom the staff transfer provisions apply and his former employer shall have effect from the appointed day as if originally made between him and his new employer.
(6)Without prejudice to subsection (5)—
(a)all the former employer’s rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with the contract of employment shall by virtue of this section be transferred to the new employer on the appointed day, and
(b)anything done before that date by or in relation to the former employer in respect of that contract or the employee shall be deemed from that day to have been done by or in relation to the new employer.
(7)Subsections (5) and (6) are without prejudice to any right of an employee to terminate his contract of employment if a substantial change is made to his detriment in his working conditions, but no such right shall arise by reason only of the change in employer effected by this section.
(8)In this section—
“existing school” means a school which becomes a school of a different category on the appointed day as mentioned in subsection (1), and “new school” means the school of a different category which an existing school then becomes;
“the former employer” and “the new employer”—
where the staff transfer provisions apply by virtue of subsection (2)(a) or (b), means the [F1local authority] and the governing body of the new school respectively, and
where the staff transfer provisions apply by virtue of subsection (2)(c), means the governing body of the existing school and the [F1local authority] respectively;
and references to a special agreement, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school are references to such a school within the meaning of the M1Education Act 1996.
(9)A person employed by a [F1local authority] in connection with the provision of meals shall not be regarded for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) as employed to work solely at a school unless the meals are provided solely for consumption by persons at the school.
(10)An order under this section may designate a person either individually or as a member of a class or description of employees.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 10(2) (with Sch. 2 para. 10(4))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 73 excluded (10.3.1999) by S.I. 1999/362, reg.56.
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