The Education (Eligibility of Primary Schools for Grant-maintained Status) Order 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/2031
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (Eligibility of Primary Schools for Grant-maintained Status) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st November 1990.

(2) In this Order “ the Act ” means the Education Reform Act 1988.

Section 2 Eligibility of primary schools for grant-maintained status

Subject to subsections (8) and (9) of section 52 of the Act, all primary schools which are county or voluntary schools shall be eligible for grant-maintained status.

Section 3 Consequential repeals

Section 52(6) of the Act (which provides for primary schools with less than three hundred pupils not to be so eligible) and section 52(7) thereof (which enables the Secretary of State to make this Order) are hereby repealed.