Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40)

Part 8 E+W Inspections

Chapter 4 E+W F1 Inspection ... of Local Authorities in England

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Pt. 8 Ch. 4 heading omitted (18.7.2012) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Annual Review of Local Authorities) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1879), arts. 1, 4(2)

Powers of entry etc. E+W

139 Power of entry E+W

(1) This section applies to—

(a) any inspection conducted by the Chief Inspector under section 136, F2 ...

F2 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) The Chief Inspector may, at any reasonable time, enter any premises for the purposes of the inspection F3 ..., other than any premises excluded by subsection (3).

(3) The premises excluded by this subsection are any domestic premises that are not a school (within the meaning of EA 1996).

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 139(1)(b) and word omitted (18.7.2012) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Annual Review of Local Authorities) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1879), arts. 1, 4(4)(a)

F3 Words in s. 139(2) omitted (18.7.2012) by virtue of The Legislative Reform (Annual Review of Local Authorities) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1879), arts. 1, 4(4)(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 139 applied (9.11.2015) by The Children Act 2004 (Joint Area Reviews) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1792), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1

Commencement Information

I1 S. 139 in force at 1.4.2007 by S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(u)