The Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 181 (S.19)

EDUCATION, SCOTLAND

The Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made

1st February 1990

Laid before Parliament

15th February 1990

Coming into force

12th March 1990

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 28B(1)(a)(ii) and (3) and 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 12th March 1990.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Regulations 1982(2).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  At the end of paragraph 2 in Part II of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs:–

“(s) whether a school board is established for the school and, if a board is not so established or has been disestablished, the reasons therefor;

(t) the composition of the school board for such a school as specified in regulations made under section 2 of the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988(3), whether such a board is established or not;

(u) where a school board is established for the school, the name of each member of the board and whether each such member is a parent, staff or co-opted member; and the address to which all communications to the board should be sent.”.

3.  In paragraph 3 in Part III of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, sub-paragraph (x) shall be deleted.

Ian Lang

Minister of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st February 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 (“the principal Regulations”) to take account of the fact that, by virtue of the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988, school boards are set up and school councils established under section 125 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 are abolished. The principal Regulations are amended so as to require an education authority, when informing a parent of the particular school in which the authority propose to place his child, to supply that parent with information with respect to: whether a school board is established for the school and, if not, or if one has been disestablished, why that is the case; the composition of the school board for the school, whether or not one is in fact established, which has been specified in regulations made under the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988 for schools of the size in question; and, where a school board is established for the school, the name of each member of the board and whether each such member is a parent, staff or co-opted member, along with the address to which all communications to the board should be sent. The principal Regulations are also amended so as to remove any requirement on an education authority to make available any information relating to school councils, given their abolition.

(1)

1980 c. 44; section 28B was inserted by section 1(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 58); section 135(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

(2)

S.I. 1982/950.

(3)

1988 c. 47. The current Regulations applicable are the School Boards (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/273).