(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provision for the content of, and the procedure for, the preparation of school organisation plans by local education authorities in England.
Regulation 3 provides for matters which must be dealt with in the plan and for the period which the plan is to cover.
The remainder of the regulations cover the procedure to be followed in the preparation and approval of the plan by the school organisation committee or adjudicator including provisions for the preparation and publication of notice of a draft plan (regulations 4 and 5) and the making of objections to the draft plan (regulation 6). Provision in particular is made that the members of the committee within each group of members are collectively to have a single vote and that any decision shall be unanimous (regulations 8(2) and (3) and 10(2) and (3)). If the committee fails to reach a unanimous decision the draft plan is to be referred to the adjudicator (regulation 8(4) and 10(4)).