Where, immediately before 31st December 2005, the registration of an independent school is provisional only under the 1980 Act,5 that school’s registration shall be treated for all purposes as if an application for registration in respect of it had been granted on that date under section 98A(3) of the 1980 Act6.

In respect of any provider of full-time education to pupils of school age who, immediately before 31st December 2005, is neither registered nor provisionally registered as an independent school, and who is providing such education to fewer than five pupils, the provisions commenced by this Order shall not apply until 30th June 2006.