PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Citation, commencement and application
1 These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Government) (Transition to New Framework) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 3rd December 1998.
2 Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations apply in relation to—
(a) county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools, which will become maintained schools within the meaning of section 20(7) of the 1998 Act; and
(b) maintained schools within the meaning of the said subsection which were formerly county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools.
3 These regulations do not apply in relation to a school (“an excepted school”) if—
(a) it is a grouped school; or
(b) in relation to any time before the appointed day, it is—
(i) a county, voluntary or maintained special school proposals for the establishment of which are implemented on or after 1st January 1999; or
(ii) a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school which does not open before the appointed day (and for this purpose a school “opens” on the date when it first admits pupils); or
(c) in relation to any time on or after the appointed day it is a school which was a school within sub-paragraph (b) immediately before the appointed day.