48Short title, commencement and extent
(1)This Act may be cited as the School Inspections Act 1996.
(2)This Act shall come into force on 1st November 1996.
(3)Subject to subsections (4) and (5), this Act extends to England and Wales only.
(4)This section and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(5)The amendments in Schedule 6 and the repeals in Schedule 7 have the same extent as the enactments to which they refer.