4.—(1) The Education (Maintained Special Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows—
(a)in regulation 5—
(i)for paragraph (2) substitute—
“(2) Any proposals for the establishment of a school must be published—
(a)on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term; and
(b)in at least one newspaper circulating in the area proposed to be served by the school.”;
(ii)before sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (3) insert—
“(za)on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term;”;
(iii)before sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (4) insert—
“(za)on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term;”; and
(iv)before sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (5) insert—
“(za)on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term;”;
(b)in regulation 8—
(i)in paragraph (2) for the words after “(as the case may be)”, substitute “within the period of one month after the date of publication of the proposals.”; and
(ii)in paragraph (3) for the words after “Schedule 6 to the Act within”, substitute “the period of two weeks after the end of the objection period.”; and
(c)in Schedule 4 for the modification to paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 substitute—
“That paragraph shall have effect as if—
in sub-paragraph (1) for “section 28, 29 or 31” there were substituted “paragraph 10(4)”;
in sub-paragraph (2)(a) for “such period as may be prescribed” there were substituted “one month after the date on which the proposals were published”;
in sub-paragraph (2)(b) for “such period as may be prescribed” there were substituted “two weeks after the end of the objection period”;
in sub-paragraph (3) for “such period as may be prescribed” there were substituted “one month after the date on which the proposals were published””.
S.I. 1999/1780 as amended by S.I. 2001/3710 (W.306), S.I. 2005/3238 (W.243), S.I. 2009/48 (W.16) and S.I. 2010/1142 (W.101).