(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the—
(a)Education (School Organisation Proposals) (Wales) Regulations 1999,
(b)Education (Maintained Special Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999,
(c)Change of Category of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2001, and
(d)School Organisation Proposals by the National Assembly for Wales Regulations 2004,
so that any notice required to be published is published on a school day and not fewer than fifteen school days before the end of a school term.
Once the notice has been published, the time for objections to the proposal is amended so that objections must be received within one month.
The Education (School Organisation Proposals) (Wales) Regulations 1999 and the Education (Maintained Special Schools) (Wales) Regulations 1999 are further amended so that if the publication of the proposals is by a local authority, the local authority must send to the Welsh Ministers copies of the objections with their observations thereon within the period of two weeks after the end of the objection period.