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Pupil referral units

31.  In Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1996 (pupil referral units)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 15(1) (management committees)—

(i)for paragraph (d), there shall be substituted—

(d)for requiring or (as the case may be) prohibiting the delegation by—

(i)a local education authority; or

(ii)in the case of a local education authority which are operating executive arrangements, the executive of that authority or any person on behalf of that executive,

to a management committee of such functions in connection with pupil referral units as are specified in the regulations.;

and

(ii)in paragraph (f) after “a local education authority” there shall be inserted “, and in the case of a local education authority which are operating executive arrangements the executive of that authority or any person acting on behalf of that executive,”; and

(b)after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be added—

(3) In sub-paragraph (2), “executive” and “executive arrangements” have the same meaning as in the Local Government Act 2000..

(1)

Paragraph 15 was inserted by section 48 of the Education Act 1997 (c. 44).