Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009(c. 22) - Explanatory Notes

Explanatory Notes

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

2009 CHAPTER 22

12 November 2009

Commentary on Sections

Part 11: Learners

Power to search for prohibited items

Section 243: Power of members of staff to search pupils for weapons: Wales

775. This section makes amendments consequential on section 235, to retain the status quo in Wales. Members of staff in schools in Wales will continue to have powers to search for weapons only as set out in Section 550AA of the 1996 Act on weapons searching (which was inserted by section 45 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006).