Part VI MISCELLANEOUS

Rationalisation of school places

236 Adoption of proposals and approval of related proposals.

(1)

Where the Secretary of State has made proposals under section 234 of this Act in respect of which he is required to cause a local inquiry to be held, he may when he has considered the report of the person appointed to hold the inquiry do one or more of the following—

(a)

adopt, with or without modifications, or determine not to adopt the proposals or any other proposals made by him under that section which he referred to the inquiry,

(b)

approve, with or without modifications, or reject any other proposals which he referred to the inquiry, and

(c)

make any such further proposals under section 234 of this Act as might have been made in accordance with the order or orders relating to the area of the local education authority concerned by the person or persons to whom the directions were given.

(2)

Where the Secretary of State has made proposals under section 234 of this Act in respect of which he is not required to cause a local inquiry to be held and which he is not required to refer to such an inquiry, he may, after considering any objections made (and not withdrawn) under subsection (5) of that section within the period allowed under that subsection, adopt, with or without modifications, or determine not to adopt, the proposals.

(3)

Proposals adopted by the Secretary of State under this section shall have effect—

(a)

if they relate to a maintained school, as if they had been—

(i)

made by the local education authority under their powers to make proposals for the establishment, alteration or discontinuance of schools, or

(ii)

in the case of a voluntary school, made by the governing body under their powers to make proposals for the alteration of their school,

and approved by the Secretary of State under section 12 or 13 of the Education Act 1980 or, as the case may be, section 184 of this Act, and

(b)

if they relate to a grant-maintained school, as if they had been made by the funding authority under those powers and approved by the Secretary of State under Part II of this Act or, as the case may be, section 184 of this Act;

and the provisions of the Education Act 1980, or Part II or section 185 of this Act, relating to the approval of particulars of premises or proposed premises of schools shall have effect accordingly.