Part 4Powers of intervention

Local education authorities

62Power to secure proper performance: further provisions

1

Section 497B of the Education Act 1996 is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1), for the words from “section 497A(4)” to “those directions” there is substituted “section 497A(4) or (4A) to a local education authority or to an officer of such an authority, the specified person”.

3

After that subsection there is inserted—

1A

In this section “the specified person” means—

a

in relation to directions under section 497A(4), the person specified in the directions, and

b

in relation to directions under section 497A(4A), the Secretary of State or the person nominated by him.