7. Until an agreed syllabus of religious education prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Fifth Schedule to the Education Act 1944 is adopted by the transferee authority (or deemed in accordance with that Schedule to be the agreed syllabus for use in schools in the area of that authority) the reference in section 28(1B)(a)(1) of that Act (religious education in aided schools to be in accordance with agreed syllabus) to “the local education authority”, and the reference in section 140(3)(a) of the Education Act 1993 (religious education in former aided grant-maintained schools to be in accordance with agreed syllabus) to “the local education authority for the area in which the school is situated”, shall be taken to include a reference to the transferor authority.
Section 28(1B) was substituted by paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to the Education Reform Act 1988.