The Education Reform Act 1988 (Commencement No. 9) Order 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/409
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation, interpretation and effect

(1) This Order may be cited as the Education Reform Act 1988 (Commencement No. 9) Order 1991.

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

(3) Articles 2 to 4 and 6 have effect for bringing the provisions specified into effect in relation to primary schools.

Section 2 Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act

Section 26 of the Act shall come into force—

(a) for the purpose of enabling proposals to be made under subsections (4) to (6) for fixing the number of pupils in any age group which it is intended to admit to a primary school in the school year beginning next after 1st August 1992 and for the purposes of subsections (7), (8) and (10), on 1st September 1991; and

(b) for its remaining purposes (so far as they relate to primary schools), on 1st August 1992.

Section 3 Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act

Subsections (1) to (3) and (9) of section 27 and sections 28 and 32 of the Act shall come into force (so far as they relate to primary schools) on the making of this Order.

Section 4 Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act

Subsections (4) to (8) of section 27 of the Act shall come into force—

(a) for the purpose of enabling orders reducing any standard number applying to a primary school to be made under subsection (5) and applications for such orders to be made as mentioned in subsection (6), on 1st May 1991;

(b) for the purpose of enabling orders increasing any standard number applying to a primary school to be made under subsection (5) and applications for such orders to be made as mentioned in subsection (7), on lst September 1991; and

(c) for their remaining purposes (so far as they relate to primary schools) on the making of this Order.

Section 5 Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act

Section 29 of the Act shall come into force on 1st May 1991.

Section 6 Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act

(1) Subsection (1) of section 31 of the Act shall come into force (so far as it relates to primary schools) on 1st August 1992.

(2) Subsection (2) of section 31 of the Act shall come into force (so far as it relates to the publication of admission arrangements for primary schools for the school year beginning next after 1st August 1992 and subsequent school years) on 1st September 1991.

(3) Subsection (3) of section 31 of the Act shall come into force on 1st August 1991.

(4) Subsections (4) to (6) of section 31 of the Act shall come into force on 1st May 1991.

Section 7 Transitional provision

Where—

(a) an application for an order under section 27(5) reducing a standard number has been made before 31st May 1992, and

(b) the Secretary of State has not before that date either made or refused to make an order on the application,

the standard number applying to the primary school in question for any age group to which the application relates in the school year beginning next after 1st August 1992 shall be the number of pupils in that age group registered at the school on 31st May 1992.