8.—(1) This regulation prescribes, for the purposes of paragraph 8(2)(c) of Schedule 6 to the Act, the persons or bodies with whom the Assembly must consult before approving, with modifications, proposals under section 28 or 29 of the Act.
(2) Those persons or bodies are the persons or body who published the proposals, and—
(a)where the proposals are to establish a new foundation or voluntary school, the local education authority whom it is proposed should maintain the school;
(b)where the proposals were published by the governing body of the school, the local education authority who maintain the school; and
(c)where the proposals were published by the local education authority to discontinue a voluntary or foundation school or to make a prescribed alteration to a foundation school consisting of an enlargement of the premises of the school, the governing body of the school.