(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Article, the occupation and use of the premises of the School shall be under the control of the Education Association.
(2) The Education Association, in exercising control of the use of the premises of the School, shall have regard to the desirability of the premises being made available for community use.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the Education Association shall have power to enter into a transfer of control agreement with any body or person if their purpose, or one of their purposes, in doing so is to promote community use of the whole or any part of the premises of the School; and
(a) they may do so notwithstanding that any trust deed relating to the School would, apart from this provision, expressly or impliedly preclude them from entering into such an agreement with that body or person or from conferring control on the controlling body in question; but
(b) they shall not enter into a transfer of control agreement unless the use to which the premises may be put under the agreement is in all other respects in conformity with any such requirements, prohibitions or restrictions imposed by the trust deed as would obtain if control were being exercised by the Education Association.
(4) The Education Association shall not enter into any transfer of control agreement which makes or includes provision for the use of the whole or any part of the premises of the School during school hours unless they have first obtained the appropriate authority’s consent to the agreement in so far as it makes such provision.
(5) In paragraph (4) above, the reference to the appropriate authority is—
(a) where an order has been made under section 12(1) of the 1993 Act (transfer to the funding authority of responsibility for providing sufficient school places) in respect of the area of the local education authority in which the School is situated, to the funding authority; or
(b) in any other case, to the Secretary of State.
(6) A transfer of control agreement shall be taken to include the following terms, namely—
(a) that the controlling body, in exercising control of the use of any premises subject to the agreement shall have regard to the desirability of the premises being made available for community use; and
(b) that, if reasonable notice is given in writing by the Education Association to the controlling body that such of the premises subject to the agreement as may be specified in the notice are reasonably required for the use by or in connection with the School at such times or may be so specified, then—
(i) the use of the specified premises at those times shall be under the control of the Education Association; and
(ii) accordingly, those premises may be used at those times by or in connection with the School for such purposes as may be specified in the notice,
notwithstanding that their use at those times would, apart from this sub–paragraph, be under the control of the controlling body.
(7) Where a transfer of control agreement makes provision for the use of any premises which are subject to the agreement to be occasionally under the control of the Education Association, instead of the controlling body, in such circumstances, at such time or for such purposes as may be provided by or under the agreement, paragraph (5)(b) above shall not have effect in relation to that agreement if, at the time of entering into it, the Education Association were of the opinion that the express provision would be more favourable to the interests of the School than the term that would otherwise be included by virtue of that provision.
(8) Where any trust deed relating to the School provides for any person other than the Education Association to be entitled to control the occupation and use of the premises of the School to any extent, then, if and to the extent that, disregarding any transfer of control agreement, the use of those premises is or would be under the control of such a person, this Article shall have effect with the substitution for references to the Education Association of references to that person.
(9) Where, in accordance with section 38 of the 1993 Act, the rights and liabilities of the former governing body of the School under a transfer of control agreement relating to the whole or any part of the premises of the School are transferred to the Education Association, the power of the Education Association to control the use and occupation of those premises shall be subject to the terms of that agreement.
(10) Where in an agreement made under paragraph 1 or 2 of Schedule 10 to the 1988 Act, or under a determination made in accordance with paragraphs 62 to 64 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, arrangements are made with respect to the use of the whole or any part of the premises of the School, the power of the Education Association to control the use and occupation of those premises shall be subject to the terms of those arrangements.
(11) In this Article—
“community use” means the use of the premises of the School (when not required by or in connection with the School) by members of the local community;
“the controlling body” means the body or person (other than the Education Association) which has the control of the use of the whole or any part of the premises of the School under the transfer of control agreement in question;
“school hours” means any time during a school session or during a break between sessions on the same day, and “outside school hours” shall be construed accordingly; and
“school session” means a school session beginning and ending at such times as may from time to time be determined in accordance with Article 15.
(12) In this Article, “transfer of control agreement” means—
(a) in paragraph (8), a transfer of control agreement entered into in accordance with (as the case may be) section 22 of the Education Act 1944 or section 42 of the Education ( No. 2) Act 1986; or
(b) in any other case, an agreement which, subject to paragraph (5) above, provides for the use of so much of the premises of the School as may be specified in the agreement to be under the control, at such times as may be so specified, of such body or person as may be so specified.