Education Act 1944 (repealed 1.11.1996)

120 Amendment of enactments. E+W

(1) On and after the date of the commencement of Part II of this Act any enactment passed before that date shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as if:—

(a) for references therein to an elementary school or to a public elementary school (whether or not any reference is made therein to the payment of parliamentary grants in respect of the school) there were substituted references to a county school or voluntary school as the context may require;

(b) for references therein to a school certified by the Board of Education, in accordance with the provisions of Part V of the M1 Education Act 1921, as suitable for providing education for blind deaf defective or epileptic children, there were substituted references to a special school;

(c) for references therein to the managers of a school there were substituted, in relation to a county . . . F1 school or a voluntary . . . F1 school, references to the governors of the school;

(d) for references therein to elementary education or to higher education there were substituted references to such education as may be provided by a local education authority in the exercise of their functions under Part II of this Act;

(e) for references therein to a local education authority, to a local education authority for elementary education, or to a local education authority for higher education, there were substituted references to a local education authority within the meaning of this Act.

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(3) The enactments mentioned in the first column of the Eighth Schedule to this Act shall, except in so far as any them extend to Scotland, have effect subject to the amendments specified in the secon column of that Schedule :

Provided that Part I of the said Schedule shall come into operation on the date of the commencement of Part II of this Act, and Part II of the said Schedule shall come into operation on the date on which section forty-four of this Act comes into operation.

(4) Where by virtue of this Act any functions cease to be exercisable by the council of a county district under the M2 Children and Young Persons Acts, 1933 M3 and 1938, the following provisions of this Act, that is to say:—

(a) subsections (3) and (4) of section six; and

(b) section ninety-seven;

shall have effect as if those functions had been exercisable under the Education Acts, 1921 and 1939; and, in relation to any such functions, the provisions of section ninety-six and of subsection (3) of section ninety-eight of this Act shall have effect as if for the references therein to the Minister of Education there were substituted references to the Secretary of State.

(5) For the purposes of any byelaws under Part II of the M4 Children and Young Persons Act 1933, the expression “child” shall have the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the said Part II; and any byelaws made by the council of a county district under the said Part II which are in force immediately before the date of the commencement of Part II of this Act shall, in relation to the area to which they extend, continue in operation on and after that date as if they had been made by the local education authority for the area in which the county district is situated, and may be varied or revoked accordingly.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word repealed by Education Act 1980 (c. 20, SIF 41:1), s. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 14

F2 S. 120(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 1 Pt. V

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of ss. 120(3), 121, and Sch. 8 Pt. I is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1921 c. 51.

M2 1933 c. 12.

M3 1938 c. 40.

M4 1933 c. 12.