31In section 7 (powers of Board to give directions to governing bodies)—
(a)for subsection (1) substitute—
“(1)Where the Board is satisfied that the governing body of a voluntary aided church school in the diocese in discharging, or failing to discharge, its functions so far as relating to—
(a)the making of any prescribed alteration to the school under Chapter II of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, or
(b)the discontinuance of the school under that Chapter, or
(c)changing the school’s category in accordance with paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 8 to that Act,
is acting in a manner which is not in the interests of that school or of church schools generally, the Board may, subject to subsection (1A) below, give directions to the governing body as to the discharge of those functions.
(1A)The Board may not, under subsection (1) above, give directions as to the publication of proposals under paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 8 to that Act which would prevent the publication of proposals for the school to become a foundation school.”;
(b)in subsection (2), for “the secretary of the governing body” substitute “the clerk to the governing body”;
(c)in subsection (3), for the words from the beginning of paragraph (a) onwards substitute—
“(a)publication of proposals for any prescribed alteration to the school under section 28(2)(b) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998; or
(b)publication of proposals under paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 8 to that Act,
the Board may itself publish those proposals, and the provisions of that Act shall apply to anything done by the Board by virtue of this subsection as if it had been done by the governing body of the school.”;
(d)omit subsection (5); and
(e)for the sidenote substitute “Powers of Board to give directions to governing bodies of voluntary aided church schools.”