The Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1986

• Citation: S.I. 1986/2203
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation

This Order may be cited as the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1986.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“ the Act ” means the Education (No. 2) Act 1986; and

“ the 1980 Act ” means the Education Act 1980.

Section 3 Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act

The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order (which relate to the matters mentioned in column 2 thereof) shall come into force on 7th January 1987, and the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order (which relate to the matters mentioned in column 2 thereof) shall come into force on 1st April 1987.

Section 4 Transitional provisions

The transitional provisions contained in Schedule 3 to this Order shall have effect in connection with the provisions brought into force by this Order which are referred to in that Schedule.

Section 1

(1) This paragraph applies in relation to every county, voluntary and maintained special school.

(2) Sub-paragraph (3) below shall cease to apply in relation to such a school on the date upon which, following the coming into force of section 1 of the Act, there come into force, in relation to the school, articles of government made under that section.

(3) During such time as this sub-paragraph applies in relation to a school—

(a) the requirements contained in sections 30 and 31 of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the school, as though they were requirements imposed directly by those sections, instead of requirements to be imposed under the articles of government for the school; and

(b) section 30 of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the school, as though it included provisions corresponding to those contained in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act, and section 31 of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the school, as though it included provisions corresponding to those contained in paragraph 5 of that Schedule; references in those paragraphs to a “ group ” being taken to refer to two or more schools grouped under section 3 of the 1980 Act, and references to a “ grouped school ” to a school which forms part of a group.

(4) Paragraph (a) of section 30(1) of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the first report to parents prepared by the governing body of a school pursuant to that section, as though there were substituted for the words “their last report” the words “7th January 1987” .

Section 2

The coming into force on 7th January 1987 of section 33 of the Act does not apply in relation to arrangements for the admission of pupils to a school, if the arrangements are concerned with admissions to the school prior to the first day of the school's autumn term in 1988.

Section 3

(1) This paragraph shall have effect until the date upon which the repeal of section 31(8) of the London Government Act 1963 is brought into force.

(2) Section 51(12) of the Act shall have effect as though there were added to the end of that subsection the words “in its application to county and voluntary schools” .