The Education Act 2002 (Commencement No.4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2003

Provisions coming into force on 1^th April 2003

4.  The following provisions of the 2002 Act shall come into force except in relation to Wales on 1^th April 2003:

• section 18 except for the repeal of section 486 of the 1996 Act made by paragraph (g) of subsection (1);

• in section 19(8) the words “regulations under this section may include provision with respect to the governing bodies of federations”;

• in section 20(4) the words “regulations under subsection (2) may include provision with respect to instruments of government for federations”;

• section 24(1) for the purpose of making regulations only;

• section 24(2) to (6);

• section 25;

• section 34;

• section 35(4) and (5);

• section 36(4) and (5);

• in section 39(1) the definition of “federation” and “federated school”;

• section 44(1) to (6);

• section 45;

• section 72;

• section 74 (2) and (3);

• section 75 to the extent that it relates to the paragraphs of Schedule 10 specified below;

• section 153;

• sections 207 and 208;

• Schedule 9;

• in Schedule 10, paragraphs 1, 6, and 11 to 15;

• section 215 to the extent that it relates to the provisions of Schedules 21 and 22 specified below;

• in Schedule 21–

  • paragraph 3 except for sub-paragraph (a),

  • paragraph 7,

  • paragraph 49,

  • paragraph 53,

  • paragraph 59 except for sub-paragraph (a),

  • paragraph 85 to the extent that it is not already in force, except for sub-paragraph (c),

  • paragraph 89,

  • paragraphs 95 and 96,

  • paragraph 98(1), (2)(a) and (3),

  • paragraph 99(1) and (3)(b),

  • paragraph 100 to the extent that it is not already in force,

  • paragraph 106,

  • paragraph 109,

  • in paragraph 110, sub-paragraph (1), in sub-paragraph (3), paragraph (a), paragraph (b) for the purpose of omitting paragraph (e) of subsection (6) of section 127 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, and paragraph (c) for the purpose of inserting paragraph (m) into that subsection,

  • paragraph 112 for the purpose of inserting the definition of “exclude”,

  • paragraph 113 to the extent that it is not already in force except for paragraphs (b) and (e),

  • paragraph 114,

  • paragraph 115(1), (2), (3)(b) and (4),

  • paragraph 118 to the extent that it is not already in force, and

  • paragraph 126;

• in Schedule 22, the repeal of–

  • the Education Act 1967 (the whole Act, so far as unrepealed),

  • in the Education Act 1986, section 1(1)(b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it, and sections 2 to 4,

  • in the Education (No. 2) Act 1986, in section 50, in subsection (1), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it, and in subsection (3A), the words from “by the Secretary of State” to “teachers”,

  • in the Education Reform Act 1988, sections 160, 210 and 211,

  • in the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, in Schedule 8, paragraphs 46 and 47,the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996 (the whole Act, so far as unrepealed),

  • in the Education Act 1996–

    • in section 318, in subsection (3A) paragraph (b) and the word “or” immediately preceding it,

    • in section 484, in subsection (2) the words “England and” and subsection (6), sections 487 to 488,

    • sections 490 to 492,

    • in section 509A(5)(b), sub-paragraph (ii) and the word “or” immediately preceding it,

    • in section 548(8), in paragraph (b), sub-paragraph (ii) and the word “or” preceding that sub-paragraph,

    • in section 578, the entries relating to the Education Act 1967 and the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996,

    • in Schedule 37, paragraph 13, in paragraph 65(2), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it, and paragraph 131,

  • in the Education Act 1997, in Schedule 7, paragraphs 8 and 36,

  • in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998–

    • section 3,

    • section 7(10),

    • in section 22(1), in paragraph (b) the words “under section 28 or 31” and in paragraph (c) the words “under section 28”,

    • section 44,

    • in section 52(2) the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b),

    • section 115,

    • section 127(6)(e),

    • in section 138, in subsection (5), paragraph (a)(ii) and (iii);

    • in Schedule 6, the word “or” at the end of paragraph 4(3)(d) and the words “or (5)” at the end of paragraph 10(6),

    • in Schedule 26, in paragraph 1, sub-paragraph (1)(c) and the word “or” preceding it,

    • in Schedule 28, Part 2,

  • in the Learning and Skills Act 2000–

    • in Schedule 7, in paragraph 35(1), the word “or” at the end of paragraph (b),

    • in Schedule 9 paragraphs 58 and 91.