http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/schedule/3Education Act 1968 (repealed 1.11.1996)An Act to amend the law as to the effect of and procedure for making changes in the character, size or situation of county schools or voluntary schools to enable special age limits to be adopted for existing as well as for new schools, and to make certain other amendments as to the approval or provision of school premises; and for purposes connected therewith.1978-08-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2011-05-261996-11-01
SCHEDULE 3 ENACTMENTS REPRINTED WITH AMENDMENTSSection 5.<CommentaryRef Ref="c674304"/> A : Education Act 1944 s. 13 <CommentaryRef Ref="c674305"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13<CommentaryRef Ref="c674306"/> B: Education Act 1946 s. I11If upon the application of a local education authority and the managers or governors of a controlled school maintained by the authority the Secretary of State is satisfied—athat there should be a significant enlargement of the school premises ; andbeither—ithat the enlargement is wholly or mainly required for the purpose of providing accommodation for pupils for whom accommodation would have been provided in some other voluntary school if that other school had not been discontinued or had not otherwise ceased to be available for the purpose; oriithat the enlargement is desirable for the better provision of primary or secondary education at the premises to be enlarged or for securing that there is available for the area of the authority a sufficiency of suitable primary or secondary schools or for both those reasons:then, if proposals for carrying out the enlargement are thereafter approved under section 13 of the Education Act 1944 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), the Secretary of State may by order direct that the expense of giving effect to those proposals shall be paid by the local education authority.<CommentaryRef Ref="c674308"/> C: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 s. 771For the proviso to subsection (2) of section ten of the principal Act (which empowers the Secretary of State to give such a direction as is therein mentioned where he is satisfied that it would be unreasonable in the case of any particular school to require conformity in any particular respect with the requirements of the regulations as to the prescribed standards as to the premises of schools), the following proviso shall be substituted, that is to say—Provided that, if the Secretary of State is satisfied with respect to any school—
athat having regard to the nature of the existing site or to any existing buildings thereon or to other special circumstances affecting the school premises it would be unreasonable to require conformity with a requirement of the regulations as to any matter, orbwhere the school is to have an additional or new site that, having regard to shortage of suitable sites it would be unreasonable to require conformity with a requirement of the regulations relating to sites, orcwhere the school is to have additional buildings or is to be transferred to a new site, and existing buildings not theretofore part of the school premises, or temporary buildings, are to be used for that purpose, that having regard to the need to control public expenditure in the interests of the national economy it would be unreasonable to require conformity with a requirement of the regulations relating to buildings,he may give a direction that, notwithstanding that that requirement is not satisfied, the school premises shall, whilst the direction remains in force, be deemed to conform to the prescribed standards as respects matters with which the direction deals if such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the direction as respects those matters are observed.2Where it is proposed to establish a new school to be maintained by a local education authority, if the Secretary of State is satisfied, on the submission to him of the specifications and plans of the school premises, either—awith respect to the site of the school, as to the matters mentioned in paragraph (b) set out in the preceding subsection, orbwith respect to buildings where the school is to be established in premises comprising existing buildings or temporary buildings, as to the matters mentioned in paragraphcset out in the preceding subsection,or if the Secretary of State is satisfied, on the submission to him of the specifications and plans of the school premises where the premises are to comprise the existing site or buildings of another school, as to the matters mentioned in paragraph (a) set out in the preceding subsection, he may (notwithstanding the provisions of section thirteen of the principal Act as to conformity to the prescribed standards) approve the specifications and plans, and may undertake to give a direction as to the school under the proviso to subsection (2) of section ten of the principal Act on the school’s being established.2ANotwithstanding the provisions of section 13 of the principal Act as to conformity to the prescribed standards, the Secretary of State may approve specifications and plans submitted to him under that section in connection with proposals for a significant enlargement of school premises in any case where he could under subsection (2) of this section do so if they were specifications and plans of the school premises of a new school proposed to be established.3This section, except subsection (2A), shall be deemed to have had effect since the commencement of Part 11 of the principal Act.Act repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(2), 583(2), Sch. 38 Pt. I, Sch. 39 (with ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39)The text of Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and except as specified does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.1944 c. 31. Sch. 1 para. 7, Sch. 3 Part A repealed by Education Act 1980 (c. 20, SIF 41:1), s. 38(6), Sch. 71946 c. 50. 1944 c. 31. 1948 c. 40.