Subsections (4) and (5)(b) and (c) of section 183 of the 1993 Act shall apply to the governing body of a group in relation to a grant–maintained special school in that group.

Section 183(6) and any regulations made thereunder6 and section 184 of the 1993 Act shall apply in relation to any prescribed alterations7 under section 183(4) to a grant–maintained special school in a group or to the discontinuance of such a school.

Subsections (2) to (6) of section 185 of the 1993 Act shall apply in relation to alterations to a grant–maintained special school in a group to the same extent as those subsections apply to a grant–maintained special school which is not in a group.

Subsections (7) and (8) of section 188 of the 1993 Act shall apply to a grant– maintained special school in a group as it applies to a grant–maintained special school which is not in a group.