s 68 †Power of Minister to prevent unreasonable exercise of functions.
If the Secretary of State for Education and Science is satisfied, either on complaint by any person or otherwise, that any local education authority or the . . . governors of any county or voluntary school have acted or are proposing to act unreasonably with respect to the exercise of any power conferred or the performance of any duty imposed by or under this Act, he may, notwithstanding any enactment rendering the exercise of the power or the performance of the duty contingent upon the opinion of the authority or of the . . . governors, give such directions as to the exercise of the power or the performance of the duty as appear to him to be expedient. In this section, references to a local education authority shall be construed as including references to any body of persons authorised, in accordance with the First Schedule to this Act, . . . , to exercise functions of such an authority.