The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1440

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

WALES

The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

24th May 1999

Laid before Parliament

26th May 1999

Coming into force

1st September 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 23(7) and 45(3) of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to, the School Inspections Act 1996(1) and section 569(4) and (5) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Education Act 1996(2), the Secretary of State for Wales hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Inspection) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 1998(3).

Amendment of Principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows.

3.  In regulation 5–

(a) in both paragraphs (1)(a) and (1)(b) for “county, voluntary or maintained special school” substitute “school maintained by a local education authority”;

(b) omit paragraph (1)(c);

(c) for paragraph (1)(d) substitute–

“in the case of a school which has foundation governors, the person who appoints those governors and, in the case of a voluntary aided school, the appropriate diocesan authority (if different);”;

(d) omit paragraph (1)(e);

(e) omit paragraph (1)(f);

(f) for paragraph (2)(a), substitute–

“the expression “a school which has a delegated budget” shall be construed in accordance with section 49(7)(a) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;”;

(g) in paragraph (2)(b) for “section 311 of the Education Act 1996” substitute “section 142(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998”, and omit paragraphs (2)(c) and (2)(d).

4.  In regulation 6(d)(v) for “section 3(2)” substitute “section 6(2)”.

5.  In regulation 12, for the words from “grant-maintained” to “(or both)” substitute “foundation school are required by section 23(1)(4) of the 1996 Act to secure that denominational education given to any pupils and the content of the school’s collective worship”.

6.  In regulation 13 omit paragraphs (4)(b) and (c).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

24th May 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”) provides for new categories of maintained schools which will replace, from 1st September 1999, the existing categories of such schools. The 1998 Act amends the Education Act 1996 and the School Inspections Act 1996 by substituting references to those new categories and a new definition of the term “maintained school”. These regulations amend the Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 1998 to reflect those and other changes made by the 1998 Act.

(1)

1996 c. 57; Paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to the School Inspections Act 1996 is prospectively amended by paragraph 204 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31).

(2)

1996 c. 56; see section 579(1) for the meaning of “regulations”.

(3)

S.I. 1998/1866.

(4)

Section 23(1) is prospectively amended by paragraph 199(1) and (2) of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.