2C1†Power of Minister, in certain circumstances, to require local education authority to defray expenses of establishing a controlled school. C2
Where—
a
any persons submit, under F2section 13 of the Education Act 1980, to the F3Secretary of State for Education and Science proposals for the establishment by them, or by persons whom they represent, of a new school . . . F4 and for its maintenance by the local education authority as a voluntary school; and
b
the persons who submit the proposals and the local education authority show to the satisfaction of the F3Secretary of State for Education and Science that the establishment of the school is required for the purpose of providing accommodation for pupils for whom F5or for a substantial proportion of whom accommodation would have been provided in some other F6school which is or was either—
i
a voluntary school; or
ii
a grant-maintained school which was or had been a voluntary school immediately before it became a grant-maintained schoolif that other school had not been discontinued or had not otherwise ceased to be available for the purpose; and
c
no application is made under subsection (2) of section fifteen of the principal Act to the F3Secretary of State for Education and Science for an order directing that the school shall be an aided school or a special agreement school;
the F3Secretary of State for Education and Science may by order direct that the whole, or a specified part, of so much of the cost incurred in the establishment of the school as would, apart from the order, fall to be defrayed by the persons who establish it shall be defrayed by the local education authority.