2018 No. 1118 (W. 232)

Education, Wales

The School Organisation Code (Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2018

Made

The Welsh Ministers in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 39(4) of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 20131 make the following Order:

Title1

The title of this Order is the School Organisation Code (Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2018.

Appointed Day2

The day appointed for the coming into force of the School Organisation Code (a copy of a draft of which was laid before the National Assembly for Wales on 17 September 2018) is 1 November 2018.

Kirsty WilliamsCabinet Secretary for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 1 November 2018 as the day on which the School Organisation Code (“the Code”) issued under sections 38 and 39 of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (“the SSOA 2013”) by the Welsh Ministers, comes into force.

The Code replaces the School Organisation Code which came into force on 1 October 2013.

The Code imposes requirements and includes guidelines setting out aims, objectives or other matters in relation to school organisation proposals made under Part 3 of the SSOA 2013. Under section 38(4) of the SSOA 2013, it is the duty of the Welsh Ministers, local authorities, the governing bodies of maintained schools and other persons, when exercising functions under Part 3 of the SSOA 2013, to act in accordance with any relevant provisions of the Code. In addition, any other person, when exercising any function for the purpose of the discharge by the Welsh Ministers, a local authority or the governing body of a maintained school of functions under that Part, must act in accordance with any relevant provisions of the Code.