SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 20 TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS

Education committees etc and members of those committees

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1

Sub-paragraph (2) below applies to—

a

any education committee established in accordance with paragraph 1 of Part II of the First Schedule to the M1Education Act 1944, and

b

any sub-committee of any such committee appointed in accordance with paragraph 10 of that Part,

which is in existence immediately before the commencement of section 296 of this Act.

2

Any committee or sub-committee to which this sub-paragraph applies shall, for the purposes of any enactment, be treated as if it had been—

a

appointed at the commencement of that section—

i

in the case of a committee, by the local authority, or

ii

in the case of a sub-committee, by the committee appointed by the authority,

in accordance with section 102(1) of the M2Local Government Act 1972, and

b

so appointed wholly or partly for the purpose of discharging any functions with respect to education conferred on them in their capacity as a local education authority or, as the case may be, the committee’s functions with respect to education.

3

Sub-paragraph (4) below applies to any person who is immediately before the commencement of section 296 of this Act a member of an education committee or sub-committee of such a committee appointed for a term of office.

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Any person to whom this sub-paragraph applies shall, for the purposes of any enactment, be treated—

a

as if he had been appointed at the commencement of that section as a member of a committee or sub-committee appointed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above for the residue of that term, and

b

if he was a member of an education committee or sub-committee by virtue of directions given by the Secretary of State under paragraph 5A of Part II of the First Schedule to the Education Act 1944, as if he had been appointed at the commencement of that section as a member of a committee or sub-committee appointed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above by virtue of directions given by the Secretary of State under section 297 of this Act.