1990 No. 2031

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Eligibility of Primary Schools for Grant-maintained Status) Order 1990

Made

Coming into force

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 52(7) of the Education Reform Act 19881 the Secretary of State for Education and Science, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the Education (Eligibility of Primary Schools for Grant-maintained Status) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st November 1990.

2

In this Order “the Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988.

Eligibility of primary schools for grant-maintained status2

Subject to subsections (8) and (9) of section 52 of the Act, all primary schools which are county or voluntary schools shall be eligible for grant-maintained status.

Consequential repeals3

Section 52(6) of the Act (which provides for primary schools with less than three hundred pupils not to be so eligible) and section 52(7) thereof (which enables the Secretary of State to make this Order) are hereby repealed.

John MacGregorSecretary of State for Education and Science
David HuntSecretary of State for Wales

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 52(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988 provides that primary schools which have less than 300 pupils are not eligible for grant-maintained status. This Order removes that limitation and provides that all primary schools shall be so eligible, subject to the general provisions in subsections (8) and (9) of section 52. Subsections (6) and (7), which in consequence of this Order are spent, are repealed.