1.—(1) Where the Department approves a proposal for acquisition of grant-maintained integrated status in respect of any school it may by order made at any time on or after the date on which it approves the proposal and before the incorporation date in relation to the school make such provision as it considers appropriate in connection with the school’s transition to grant-maintained integrated status and the impending transfer of responsibility for the management and control of the school to a Board of Governors constituted in accordance with Schedule 5.
(2) In this Schedule, in relation to any school in respect of which such a proposal has been approved,—
“the existing governing authority” means, in the case of a grant-aided school, the Board of Governors of the school constituted under the principal Order and, in the case of an independent school, the proprietor of the school;
“the new Board of Governors” means the first Board of Governors constituted for the school in accordance with Schedule 5.