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If the [F1Secretary of State for Education and Science] is satisfied, either on complaint by any person or otherwise, that any local education authority or the . . . F2 governors of any county or voluntary school have acted or are proposing to act unreasonably with respect to the exercise of any power conferred or the performance of any duty imposed by or under this Act, he may, notwithstanding any enactment rendering the exercise of the power or the performance of the duty contingent upon the opinion of the authority or of the . . . F2 governors, give such directions as to the exercise of the power or the performance of the duty as appear to him to be expedient.
[F3In this section, references to a local education authority shall be construed as including references to any body of persons authorised, in accordance with the First Schedule to this Act, . . . F4, to exercise functions of such an authority.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1964/490, art. 3(2)(a)
F2Words repealed by Education Act 1980 (c. 20, SIF 41:1), s. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 1
F3Words inserted by Education Act 1946 (c. 50), Sch. 2 Pt. I
F4Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Unreliable marginal note.
C2S. 68 extended by Education (No. 2) Act 1968 (c. 37), s. 3(3), Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65), s. 25(2) and Race Relations Act 1976 (c. 74), s. 19(2)
C3S. 68 modified by Education (No.2) Act 1986 (c.61, SIF 41:1), s. 12(10), Sch. 2 para. 29(b)
C4S. 68 restricted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 23(2), 231(7), 235(6)
S. 68 restricted (1.9.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 298, Sch. 18 para. 6(4); S.I. 1994/2038, art. 3, Sch.2.
C5S. 68 extended by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 219(2), 231(7), 235(6)
C6S. 68 extended (22.8.1991) by School Teacher's Pay and Conditions Act 1991 (c. 49, SIF 41:1), s. 5(5); S.I. 1991/1874, art. 2
C7S. 68 extended
C8S. 68 extended (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1
C9s. 68 applied (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 9(4); S.I. 1994/507, art. 3(1).
C10S. 68 applied (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/653, reg. 42(1), Sch. Pt.I.
C11S. 68 applied (9.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1084, reg. 8(1), Sch. 2 Pt.I.
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