These Regulations amend the Education (Schools Conducted by Education Associations) Regulations 1993.

They insert a regulation 4A, which provides for the Education (Acquisition of Grant-maintained Status) (Transitional Functions) Regulations 1993 to have effect in relation to the exercise by education associations of their powers under Schedule 4 to the Education Act 1993 with modifications (regulation 2).

Schedule 4 (as it applies to education associations) provides for the exercise of powers by such an association between the date on which an order under section 220 of the 1993 Act is made and the date on which responsibility for the conduct of the school transfers to them.

The Education (Acquistion of Grant-maintained Status) (Transitional Functions) Regulations regulate the exercise of the power in Schedule 4 to appoint members of staff and prescribe the information relating to the school which the education association may require from the existing governing body and the local educatin authority.

The Regulations also substitute a new Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, which modifies a number of additional enactments in their application to schools conducted by education associations, and omits the modification to section 273(6) of the Education Act 1993, which was included in the principal Regulations in error, and the modifications to the Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1990 and the Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1993, which have been revoked (regulation 3).

The Regulations also insert in Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations provision modifying section 130(2) of the Education Act 1993 in its application to such schools (regulation 4).