PART 1General
Title and commencement
1. The title of these Regulations is the Education (School Inspections) (Wales) Regulations 2006 and they come into force on 1 September 2006.
Revocation and amendment
2.—(1) The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 1998(1), the Education (School Inspection) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1999(2) and the Education (School Inspection) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004(3) are revoked.
(2) The Education (Registered Inspectors) (Fees) Regulations 1992(4) are revoked in relation to Wales.
(3) In the Annual Parents' Meeting (Exemptions) (Wales) Regulations 2005(5) —
(a)in paragraph (a) of regulation 5, for “section 10 of the School Inspections Act 1996” substitute “ section 28 of the Education Act 2005”; and
(b)in paragraph (b) of that regulation, for “prescribed by regulation 8(1) of the Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 1998” substitute “prescribed by regulations under, or directed by the National Assembly under, section 39(2) or 42(2) of that Act”.
Interpretation: general
3.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the School Inspections Act 1996(6) (which is revoked by the 2005 Act);
“the 2005 Act” (“Deddf 2005”) means the Education Act 2005;
“appropriate diocesan authority” (“awdurdod esgobaethol priodol”), “Church in Wales school” (“ysgol yr Eglwys yng Nghymru”), “Church of England school” (“ysgol Eglwys Loegr”) and “Roman Catholic school” (“ysgol yr Eglwys Gatholig Rufeinig”), in each case, have the meanings given by section 142(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(7);
“bank holiday” (“gwyl banc”) means a day which is a bank holiday in Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(8);
“the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales; and
“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday, a bank holiday or part of a holiday longer than a week taken by the school in question.
(2) Where these Regulations require an act to be done within a specified period from a specified date the period begins immediately after that date.
(3) In order to give full effect to section 41(4)(c), the reference in that provision to “the authority” is to be read, for the purposes of regulation 9(3), as a reference to the proprietor of the school.
(4) Any reference in these Regulations to a section or Schedule (without more) is a reference to a section of, or Schedule to, the 2005 Act.