PART 3FOUNDATION SCHOOLS

29Savings: proposals to change category to foundation school

(1)

Subsection (2) applies to a proposal by a local authority or a governing body of a maintained school to change the category of a maintained school to a foundation school where the proposal—

(a)

has been published under paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 before the coming into force of section 27, and

(b)

has not been implemented in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 to that Act before the coming into force of section 27.

(2)

Schedule 8 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 has effect as if the amendments at section 27 had not been enacted.

(3)

In this section, “maintained school” means—

(a)

a community school,

(b)

a voluntary aided school, or

(c)

a voluntary controlled school.