Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 70A-70C and cross-heading inserted (18.4.2016) by Education and Adoption Act 2016 (c. 6), ss. 6(3), 19(2); S.I. 2016/466, reg. 2
(1)This section applies where a local authority have given the governing body of a maintained school a notice under section 65 (governing body to consist of interim executive members).
(2)The Secretary of State may take over responsibility for arrangements in connection with the interim executive members by giving notice to the local authority and, where the Secretary of State does so—
(a)the notice given by the local authority in accordance with section 65 is to be treated as having been given by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 69, and
(b)anything done by or in relation to the local authority under Schedule 6 is to be treated as having been done by or in relation to the Secretary of State.]