1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Allocation of Grant-maintained and Grant-maintained Special Schools to New Categories) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 7th September 1998.
(2) These Regulations apply to grant-maintained and grant-maintained special schools, within the meaning of the Education Act 1996(1), save that regulations 4(1) (to the extent that that paragraph relates to notifying and giving information to the persons referred to in regulation 4(3)(a)) and (2)(c) to (h), 5 to 12, 13(2) and (3), 14(5) and 16(2)(a) do not apply to a grant-maintained special school which is established in a hospital.