The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (School Playing Fields) (Modification) (England) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (School Playing Fields) (Modification) (England) Regulations 1999

Made

4th January 1999

Laid before Parliament

7th January 1999

Coming into force

1st February 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 144(1) and (2)(f) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (School Playing Fields) (Modification) (England) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st February 1999.

Modification of section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998

2.  Until Schedule 22 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 comes into force, section 77(2)(b) of that Act shall have effect with the modification that for “either of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 22” there shall be substituted “section 231(7) of the Education Act 1996(2)”.

Charles Clarke

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

4th January 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 77(2)(b) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 which is proposed to come into force on 1st February 1999, contains a reference to paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 22 to that Act (which, amongst other things, makes provision for the consent of the Secretary of State to the disposal of land by governing bodies of certain schools). Schedule 22 is not expected to come into force until 1st September 1999 and these regulations provide that until then, section 77 has effect with modifications.

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

1996 c. 56; section 231 applies with modifications to grant-maintained special schools by virtue of paragraph 12 of Schedule 28 and regulation 16 of S.I. 1994/653.