1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Government) (Transition to New Framework) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 3rd December 1998.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations apply in relation to—
(a)county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools, which will become maintained schools within the meaning of section 20(7) of the 1998 Act; and
(b)maintained schools within the meaning of the said subsection which were formerly county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools.
(3) These regulations do not apply in relation to a school (“an excepted school”) if—
(a)it is a grouped school; or
(b)in relation to any time before the appointed day, it is—
(i)a county, voluntary or maintained special school proposals for the establishment of which are implemented on or after 1st January 1999; or
(ii)a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school which does not open before the appointed day (and for this purpose a school “opens” on the date when it first admits pupils); or
(c)in relation to any time on or after the appointed day it is a school which was a school within sub-paragraph (b) immediately before the appointed day.