Amendment of Regulations
3.—(1) The Education (Special Schools Conducted by Education Associations) Regulations 1994 (1) are amended as follows.
(2) For regulation 4 there is substituted the following regulation—
“4.—(1) Paragraph (2) below applies in relation to the exercise by an education association named in an order made under section 220 of the Act in respect of a maintained special school of the functions conferred on them under Schedule 4 to the Act during the period beginning when the order is made and ending immediately before the transfer date.
(2) Parts I and III of the Education (Acquisition of Grant-maintained Status) (Transitional Functions) Regulations 1993 (2) shall have effect as those Regulations have effect in relation to the exercise by a new governing body incorporated under section 34(1) of the Act of their functions under that Schedule, with the substitution in regulation 7(1)(d) for the reference to the school becoming grant-maintained of a reference to the school beginning to be conducted by the education association.”
(3) In the second column of Schedule 1—
(a)opposite the entry in the first column relating to section 35 of the Education Act 1993 there are inserted at the beginning the words “At the beginning there are inserted the words “Paragraphs 1 and 3 to 7 of”,”; and
(b)opposite the entry in the first column relating to Schedule 4 to that Act—
(i)for “paragraphs 1 to 5” there is substituted “paragraphs 1, 3 to 5”;
(ii)the word “and” where it last appears is omitted; and
(iii)at the end there are added the words “and in paragraph 6(1) for the words “by or under paragraphs 2 to 5 above” there are substituted the words “by or under paragraphs 3 to 5 above or by paragraph 1 (1) (a) or (b) of Schedule 12 to this Act”.”.