The Education (School Organisation Proposals) (Wales) Regulations 1999

Modification of approved proposals

9.—(1) This Regulation prescribes, for the purposes of paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 6 to the Act, the persons or body—

(a) at whose request the Assembly may modify approved proposals relating to a mainstream school;

(b) whom the Assembly must consult before modifying such approved proposals; and

(c) at whose request the Assembly may, where approval of proposals in respect of a mainstream school was given in accordance with paragraph 8(3) of that Schedule (approval expressed to take effect only if an event specified in the approval occurs by a date so specified), specify a later date by which the event in question must occur.

(2) The Assembly may modify approved proposals or specify a later date at the request of the persons or body who published the proposals.

(3) Before modifying approved proposals, the Assembly shall consult—

(a) where the proposals were to establish a new foundation or voluntary school, the local education authority who it is proposed should maintain the school;

(b) where the proposals were published by the governing body of the school, the local education authority who maintain the school;

(c) where the proposals were published by the local education authority to discontinue a voluntary or foundation school or to make a prescribed alteration to a foundation school consisting of an enlargement of the premises of the school, the governing body of the school.

(4) In this regulation references to approved proposals include references to proposals which the body or promoters by whom they were published have determined to implement under paragraph 9 of Schedule 6.