The Education Act 1996 (Amendment of Section 19) (England) Regulations 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1507

Education, england

The Education Act 1996 (Amendment of Section 19) (England) Regulations 2007

Made

22nd May 2007

Laid before Parliament

30th May 2007

Coming into force

2nd July 2007

The Secretary of State for Education and Skills makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1):

Citation, commencement, and application

1.  These Regulations may be cited as The Education Act 1996 (Amendment of Section 19) (England) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 2nd July 2007.

Amendment of Section 19 of the Education Act 1996

2.—(1) Section 19 of the Education Act 1996(2) is amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (2) insert—

“(2A) Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to schools in England.

(2B)  Any school established in England (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) and maintained by a local education authority which—

(a) is specially organised to provide education for such children, and

(b) is not a community or foundation school, a community or foundation special school, or a maintained nursery school,

shall be known as a “pupil referral unit”.”.

Jim Knight

Minister of State

Department for Education and Skills

22nd May 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 2nd July 2007, amend section 19 of the Education Act 1996 in relation to England only. They update the definition of a pupil referral unit, consequent on changes to the categorisation of maintained schools introduced by section 20 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

(1)

1998 c. 31. See section 142(1) for the definition of “regulations” .

(2)

1996 c. 56. Section 19 was amended by section 47 of and Schedule 8 to the Education Act 1997 (c.44).