Education Reform Act 1988

236 Commencement

(1) The following provisions of this Act, namely—

• section 1;

• section 2(1)(b) and (2);

• sections 3 and 4;

• sections 14 and 15 and Schedule 2;

• sections 20 to 22 and 23(1);

• section 25;

• sections 33 to 45 and Schedule 3;

• sections 46 to 104 and Schedules 4 and 5;

• section 105;

• sections 112 and 113;

• section 116;

• section 119;

• sections 137 to 151;

• sections 153 to 201, Schedule 8 so far as relating to the Education Assets Board, Schedules 9 and 10 and paragraph 67 of Schedule 12;

• sections 202 to 208 and Schedule 11;

• sections 212 and 213;

• section 217;

• section 219 so far as relating to grant-maintained schools;

• sections 221 to 225 and 227 (1);

• sections 230 to 235 and Schedule 6;

• this section;

• Part I of Schedule 12, paragraphs 60, 81, 82 and 102 of that Schedule and section 237(1) so far as relating to those provisions; and

• section 238;

shall come into force on the passing of this Act.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in section 120 of this Act, until the end of the year 1989 any education provided by an institution for which immediately before the passing of this Act there is in force an instrument of government made under section 1 of the [1968 c. 37.] Education (No. 2) Act 1968 (government and conduct of colleges of education and other institutions providing further education) shall for the purposes of—

(a) the Education Acts 1944 to 1988; and

(b) any other enactment referring to further education within the meaning of those Acts or of the 1944 Act;

be treated as further education, and not as secondary education, within the meaning of that Act.

(3) Sections 2(1)(a) and (3), 6, 8, 9, 10(1), 11 and 13 and Schedule 1 shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

(4) Part II of Schedule 12, and section 237(1) so far as relating to that Part, shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

(5) Part I of Schedule 13, and section 237(2) so far as relating to that Part, shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

(6) Except as provided above in this section, this Act shall come into force on such date or dates as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.

(7) Different dates may be appointed in relation to different provisions of this Act and for different purposes of the same provision, including (in particular) for the purpose of bringing particular provisions into force only in relation to particular educational institutions or categories of educational institutions.

(8) Any order under this section may make such transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into force by the order.

(9) Any such order may include such adaptations of the provisions which it brings into force, or of any other provisions of this Act then in force, as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient for the purpose or in consequence of the operation of any provision of this Act (including, in particular, the provisions which the order brings into force) before the coming into force of any other provision.