The Education Act 1996 (Grant-Maintained Schools) (Grants to Governing Bodies in Liquidation) (Modification) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 600

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education Act 1996 (Grant-Maintained Schools) (Grants to Governing Bodies in Liquidation) (Modification) Regulations 1999

Made

2nd March 1999

Laid before Parliament

9th March 1999

Coming into force

1st April 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 144(1) and (2)(g) 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 Education Act 1996 (Grant-Maintained Schools) (Grants to Governing Bodies in Liquidation) (Modification) Regulations 1999, and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

Modification of section 276 of the Education Act 1996

2.  With effect from 1st April 1999, section 276 of the Education Act 1996(2) shall have effect as if each reference in that provision to the funding authority were a reference to the Secretary of State.

Estelle Morris

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

2nd March 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 276 of the 1996 Act provides for the Funding Agency for Schools (“the funding authority”) to make grants to the governing body of a grant-maintained school in liquidation for the purpose of discharging that body’s liabilities and meeting any costs incurred in its winding up. These Regulations provide for the modification of that section so that, with effect from 1st April 1999, it is the Secretary of State rather than the funding authority who will have power to make grants to such a governing body for those purposes.

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

1996 c. 56. Section 276 applies in relation to the governing body of a grant-maintained special school in liquidation by virtue of regulation 33 of the Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/653).