Local Government Act 2003

School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) and Education Act 2002 (c. 32)

66 (1) Sections 45A and 45B of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (which provide for the setting of a local education authority’s schools budget) are amended in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) to (6).

(2) In sections 41 and 42 of the Education Act 2002, the sections 45A and 45B inserted into the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 are amended in accordance with those sub-paragraphs.

(3) In section 45A(5) (authority to set, and give notice of, its schools budget before the end of January), for “end of January” there is substituted “schools budget deadline”.

(4) In section 45A, after subsection (5) there is inserted—

“(6) For the purposes of this section and section 45B “the schools budget deadline” is—

(a) the end of December in the case of an authority in England, and

(b) the end of January in the case of an authority in Wales.”

(5) In section 45B(1) (appropriate person may serve counter-notice within period of fourteen days beginning with giving of notice), for “day on which the notice was given” there is substituted “schools budget deadline in the financial year preceding that financial year”.

(6) In section 45B(2) (power of appropriate person to act where authority has not given notice under section 45A(5) by the end of January)—

(a) for “end of January” there is substituted “schools budget deadline”, and

(b) for “the end of that January” there is substituted “that deadline”.