The Epicentre LEAP Ellesmere Port Cheshire Education Action Zone (Amendment) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 1000

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Epicentre LEAP Ellesmere Port Cheshire Education Action Zone (Amendment) Order 2001

Made

7th March 2001

Laid before Parliament

15th March 2001

Coming into force

6th April 2001

Whereas an application for the purpose of amending the Epicentre LEAP Ellesmere Port Cheshire Education Action Zone Order 1999 has been made to the Secretary of State with the consent of the governing bodies of every participating school in the Zone;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(1) and 11 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the the Epicentre LEAP Ellesmere Port Cheshire Education Action Zone (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 6th April 2001.

Amendment of the Epicentre LEAP Ellesmere Port Cheshire Education Action Zone Order 1999

2.—(1) The Epicentre LEAP Ellesmere Port Cheshire Education Action Zone Order 1999(2) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this article.

(2) In article 4(c) for “six persons” substitute “twelve persons”;

(3) There shall be inserted after article 9 the following article—

“Removal from office by Forum

9A.   A member of the Forum may be removed from office by the Forum in the following circumstances—

(a) in the case of a member who was a governor of a zone school at the time he was appointed to the Forum pursuant to article 4(a), if that person ceases to be a governor of that zone school;

(b) in the case of a member appointed pursuant to article 4(a), if the school whose governing body appointed the member is discontinued; and

(c) in the case of a member appointed pursuant to paragraphs (a) or (c) of Article 5, if that person no longer appears to the Forum to represent the interests of either business or the education sector generally in Cheshire, in the area served by the zone schools, as the case may be.”

Estelle Morris

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

7th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Epicentre LEAP Ellesmere Port Cheshire Education Action Zone Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3396).

It amends article 4 of that order to provide for additional members to be appointed to the Education Action Forum for the zone by the partners. It also provides for circumstances in which members of the Forum may be removed from office.

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

S.I. 1999/3396.