The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Commencement No. 7 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 No. 2323 (c. 59)

SCHEDULE 7 TRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS RELATING TO SCHOOL GOVERNMENT

Savings relating to continuation and composition of governing bodies

2.  In cases where the instrument of government for a maintained school is not made before 1st September 1999, the repeal of Parts II and III and section 344 of, and Schedule 28 to, the 1996 Act is without prejudice to the continued effect, in accordance with regulation 19 of the First Transitional Regulations, of—

(a) the provisions of the 1996 Act relating to the composition of governing bodies, disqualification of governors and instruments of government; and

(b) any regulations and instruments of government in force under those provisions (or as if made under those provisions) immediately before 1st September 1999,

for the purpose of determining the composition of and disqualification requirements relating to any governing body to which regulation 19 of the First Transitional Regulations applies, pending reconstitution of the governing body under the instrument of government.