1. Sections 45 to 48 and 50(3) and (4) and Schedule 14 shall have effect in the period ending immediately before 1st April 1999 only for the purposes of the financing of schools in any financial year beginning on and after that date.
2. Section 52 shall have effect only in relation to financial years commencing on and after 1st April 1999.
3.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2)–
(a)section 99(1)(1); and
(b)section 101(4)(2),
shall not affect any provision for selection by ability which is made by admission arrangements for a maintained school which were determined by the admission authority for the school before 1st October 1998.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(a) only applies in so far as the relevant provision for selection by ability relates to the admission of pupils to the school in the 1999/2000 school year or any earlier school year.
(3) In this paragraph, “maintained school”–
(a)in relation to any time before the appointed day(3), means a county, voluntary or grant-maintained school within the meaning of the Education Act 1996;
(b)in relation to any later time, has the meaning given by section 99(5) of the 1998 Act.
4. The repeal of section 212 of the 1996 Act is without prejudice to the obligation to implement proposals published under that section which have been approved under section 214 of that Act.
5. The new paragraph 3A(1) inserted in Schedule 3 to the School Inspections Act 1996 by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 28 to the 1998 Act shall have effect until 1st August 1999 as if the words “; and no person shall act as a member of an inspection team unless he is enrolled in the list” were omitted.