Notification of inspection
7.—(1) Where a section 28 inspection is arranged, the appropriate authority must, for the purpose of paragraph 6(a) of Schedule 4, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to notify—
(a)in the case of a maintained school which has a delegated budget, a person appearing to them to be an appropriate officer of the local education authority;
(b)in the case of a maintained school which does not have a delegated budget, the chairman of the governing body;
(c)in the case of a school which has foundation governors, the person who appoints those governors and, in the case of a voluntary aided school which is a Church in Wales school, a Church of England school or a Roman Catholic school, the appropriate diocesan authority (if different);
(d)in the case of a non-maintained special school, the National Assembly or any local education authority if the Assembly or authority are paying fees in respect of the provision of education to any person at the school;
(e)in the case of any school at which a registered pupil is a child who is looked after by the local authority, a person appearing to them to be an appropriate officer of that local authority; and
(f)in the case of a secondary school, such members of the local business community as the appropriate authority think fit, having regard, in particular, to the desirability of notifying members who employ, or have recently employed, former pupils of the school, of the time when the inspection is to take place.
(2) In accordance with the definition contained in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4, in this regulation and regulation 8 “appropriate authority” includes, in the case of a non-maintained special school, the proprietor of the school.