Education Act 1993

7 (1) This paragraph applies in any case where—

(a) at any time before the appointed day, the governing body of a county or maintained special school entered, or purported to enter, into a transfer of control agreement (the “relevant agreement”),

(b) the school is a county school or, as the case may be, a maintained special school on the appointed day, and

(c) on that day the procedure for acquisition of grant-maintained status is not for the time being pending (as defined in section 40 of this Act) or, if it is, proposals for acquisition of grant-maintained status (within the meaning of Part II of this Act) are not approved.

(2) Any question arising as to the validity of the relevant agreement at any time on or after the appointed day shall be determined as if, at the time when the governing body entered, or purported to enter, into the agreement (and at all times thereafter)—

(a) the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 had had effect with the substitution, for section 42, of the section 42 set out in paragraph 5 above, and

(b) the articles of government for the school had included the provision required by the section 42 so substituted.

(3) As from the appointed day, section 42 of that Act, as substituted by paragraph 5 above, shall have effect in relation to the relevant agreement, except that subsection (3) shall so have effect with the substitution for the words “if, at the time of entering into it, the governing body were of the opinion that” of the words “if and to the extent that”.

(4) Nothing in this Schedule shall be taken to imply that the relevant agreement would not have been valid at any time apart from this paragraph.

(5) Expressions used in this paragraph and in section 42 of that Act, as substituted by paragraph 5 above, have the same meaning in this paragraph as they have in that section as so substituted.