10(1)Section 529 of EA 1996 (power to accept gifts on trust for educational purposes) is amended as follows.E+W
(2)After subsection (1) insert—
“(1A)Any intention on the part of a local education authority in England that a school should be vested in the authority as trustees shall be treated for the purposes of sections 7, 10 and 11 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 as an intention to establish a new community school, community special school or maintained nursery school (so that proposals for that purpose shall be published in accordance with those sections); and Schedule 2 to that Act (proposals for establishment or discontinuance of schools in England) shall apply accordingly.”
(3)In subsection (2)—
(a)after “local education authority” insert “ in Wales ”,
(b)omit “(other than a nursery school or a special school)”, and
(c)for the words from “the purposes of” to the end substitute “ for the purposes of sections 28 and 31 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as an intention to establish a new community school, community special school or maintained nursery school (so that proposals for that purpose shall be published as required by those sections); and Schedule 6 to that Act (statutory proposals concerning schools in Wales: procedure and implementation) shall apply accordingly. ”
(4)In subsection (3)—
(a)after “subsection” insert “ (1A) or ”, and
(b)at the end insert “ , a community special school or a maintained nursery school. ”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 10 in force at 25.5.2007 by S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)