Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
2nd March 1999
Laid before Parliament
9th March 1999
Coming into force
1st April 1999
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 144(1) and (2)(g) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education Act 1996 (Grant-Maintained Schools) (Grants to Governing Bodies in Liquidation) (Modification) Regulations 1999, and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.
2. With effect from 1st April 1999, section 276 of the Education Act 1996(2) shall have effect as if each reference in that provision to the funding authority were a reference to the Secretary of State.
Estelle Morris
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
2nd March 1999
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 276 of the 1996 Act provides for the Funding Agency for Schools ("the funding authority") to make grants to the governing body of a grant-maintained school in liquidation for the purpose of discharging that body's liabilities and meeting any costs incurred in its winding up. These Regulations provide for the modification of that section so that, with effect from 1st April 1999, it is the Secretary of State rather than the funding authority who will have power to make grants to such a governing body for those purposes.
1996 c. 56. Section 276 applies in relation to the governing body of a grant-maintained special school in liquidation by virtue of regulation 33 of the Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/653).