Part I Further education
Chapter II Institutions within the further education sector
Miscellaneous
I1C244 Collective worship.
F11
This section applies to any institution within the further education sector which is principally concerned with the provision of full-time education suitable to the requirements of persons over compulsory school age who have not attained the age of nineteen years.
2
An institution is of voluntary origin for the purposes of this section if—
a
immediately before it joined the further education sector it was a voluntary school (within the meaning of the Education Act 1996),
b
immediately before it joined the further education sector it was a foundation or voluntary school (within the meaning of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998) having a foundation established otherwise than under that Act,
c
it is designated for the purposes of this paragraph by order of the Secretary of State, or
d
it is formed by or for the purpose of merging two institutions both of which were within paragraphs (a) to (c).
C12A
The governing body of an institution to which this section applies shall ensure that at an appropriate time on at least one day in each week during which the institution is open an act of collective worship is held at the institution which persons receiving education at the institution may attend.
3
In an institution of voluntary origin such act of collective worship shall —
a
be in such forms as to comply with the provisions of any trust deed affecting the institution, and
b
reflect the religious traditions and practices of the institution before it F2joined the further education sector.
4
In all F3other institutions to which this section applies such act of collective worship shall be wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character in that it shall reflect the broad traditions of Christian belief but need not be distinctive of any particular Christian denomination.
5
If the governing body of F4an institution to which this section applies considers it appropriate to do so it may in addition to the act of collective worship referred to in subsection (3) or (4) provide for acts of worship which reflect the practices of some or all of the other religious traditions represented in Great Britain.
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F67
In the application of this section to an institution which is of voluntary origin by virtue of subsection (2)(d), subsection (3)(b) shall be taken as referring to the religious traditions and practices of the two institutions mentioned in subsection (2)(d).