Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Groups including Grant-maintained Special Schools) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 8th April 1994.

2. "The 1993 Act" in these Regulations means the Education Act 1993.

Modification of Chapter IX of Part II of the 1993 Act

3. For the purposes referred to in section 187(1) of the 1993 Act Chapter IX of Part II of that Act is modified as follows:

(a)references to grant-maintained schools shall be read so as to includegrant-maintained special schools and references to grant-maintained status shall be construed accordingly;

(b)in section 126 the references to section 84(1) and to section 90(1) shall, in relation to a grant-maintained special school, be to those sections as modified by any regulations made under paragraph 14 of Schedule 11 to the 1993 Act(2);

(c)the requirements in section 127(2)(a) and (b) shall not apply in relation to a maintained special school established in a hospital.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, made under section 187 of the Education Act 1993, modify Chapter IX of Part II of the Act (which enables schools to join together as groups ofgrant-maintained schools). The effect of the modification is to extend the relevant provisions to grant-maintained special schools.