Part 1

General functions of local authority: England

Children's centres

Children's centres: transitional provision
5F
1
This section applies if immediately before the commencement date an English local authority has made arrangements for the provision of a children's centre.
2
To the extent that this would not otherwise be the case, the arrangements are to be treated for the purposes of this Part and Part 3A as made under section 3(2).
3
“The commencement date” is the day on which section 198 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 comes into force.
Ss. 5A-5G and cross-heading inserted (12.1.2010) by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), ss. 198, 269(2)