Statutory Instruments
Education, england
Made
25th October 2007
Laid before Parliament
1st November 2007
Coming into force
1st December 2007
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Day and School Year) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 1st December 2007.
(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to England.
2.—(1) The Education (School Day and School Year) (England) Regulations 1999(3) are amended as follows.
(2) Omit regulation 3(6) and regulation 5.
(3) For regulation 4 substitute the following regulation—
“4.—(1) Where a school session in the 2007-2008 school year is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training to which this paragraph applies, that session shall be regarded for the purposes of regulation 3 as a session on which that school has met.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not have effect in relation to more than two school sessions.
(3) This paragraph applies to training relating to the teaching of pupils who are in the third key stage (as defined in section 82 of the Education Act 2002(4)).”
3. The Education (School Day and School Year) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001(5) are revoked.
Jim Knight
Minister of State
Department for Children, Schools and Families
25th October 2007
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (School Day and School Year) (England) Regulations 1999.
A new regulation 4 is added to allow not more than two school sessions devoted to the training of teachers in matters relating to the teaching of pupils who are in the third key stage, in the school year 2007-2008, to be treated as sessions on which the school has met.
These powers are devolved, in relation to Wales, to the Welsh Ministers; see the reference to the Education Act 1996 in Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (SI 1999/672) and paragraphs 30 to 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32).
SI 1999/3181 as amended by SI 2001/1429.