(1)This Act may be cited as the Education (No. 2) Act 1986.
(2)This Act and the Education Acts 1944 to 1985 and the Education Act 1986 may be cited as the Education Acts 1944 to 1986.
(3)This Act shall be construed as one with the 1944 Act.
(4)Schedule 4 to this Act (which makes consequential amendments) shall have effect.
(5)This Act shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions set out in Schedule 5 to this Act.
(6)The enactments and instruments mentioned in Schedule 6 to this Act are hereby repealed or (as the case may be) revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(7)In this Act—
(a)sections 48, 52, 63(1) to (3) and 66(3) to (6), this section and so much of Schedule 6 as relates to any enactment which extends to Scotland, extend to Scotland; and
(b)section 47(11) and this section extend to Northern Ireland;
but otherwise this Act extends only to England and Wales.