The Education (Transition to New Framework) (New Schools, Groups and Miscellaneous) Regulations 1999 (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Transition to New Framework) (New Schools, Groups and Miscellaneous) Regulations 1999.

Regulation 54 of those Regulations in its original form provides for —

(a) all property (including land) of a grouped governing body held or used for the purposes of the school;

(b) all rights and liabilities of the grouped governing body acquired or incurred for those purposes,

to vest in the new individual governing body of the school concerned (in the case of a foundation or voluntary aided school) or the local education authority (in other cases).

This was not, however, what was intended. The intention was that property other than land, and associated rights and liabilities, should, in all cases, vest in the new individual governing body of the school concerned. These Regulations therefore amend the earlier Regulations to reflect that intention. They also provide for any property other than land, and any associated rights and liabilities which have already passed to the local education authority under the old regulation 54, to vest in the individual governing body of the appropriate school.

The amendments already apply in England by virtue of the Education (Transition to New Framework) (New Schools, Groups and Miscellaneous) Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3297).