Consequential amendments
3.—(1) The Education Act 1996 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 507B(12), for “the Secretary of State” substitute “the Minister for the Cabinet Office”.
(3) The references in the following provisions(1) to the Secretary of State are to be read, so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of article 2, as references to the Minister for the Cabinet Office—
(a)section 496(1);
(b)section 497(1) and (3);
(c)section 497A(2) to (4B), (6) and (7);
(d)section 497AA;
(e)section 497B(1) and (1A)(2);
(f)section 570(1) and (2)(3);
(g)section 571.
References to the Secretary of State in those provisions are subject to article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), section 211 of the Education Act 2002 (in the case of section 497AA) and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), by virtue of which certain functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.
Section 497B was inserted by section 8 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Subsection (1) was amended, and subsection (1A) was inserted, by section 62 of the Education Act 2002. Subsection (1) was also amended by S.I. 2010/1158, article 5 and Schedule 2, paragraph 7.
Section 570 was amended by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, section 140 and Schedule 30, paragraph 177; and S.I. 2010/1158, article 5 and Schedule 2, paragraph 7.