Section 103 Chapter VII: interpretation.

England and Wales

(1)

References in this Part of this Act to a change in the character of a school include, in particular, changes in character resulting from—

(a)

education beginning or ceasing to be provided for pupils above or below a particular age, for boys as well as girls or for girls as well as boys, or

(b)

the making or alteration of arrangements for the admission of pupils by reference to ability or aptitude,

but do not include such a change as is mentioned in subsection (2) below.

(2)

The change excluded by subsection (1) above is a change resulting only from persons beginning or ceasing to be provided with—

(a)

part-time education suitable to the requirements of persons of any age over compulsory school age,

(b)

part-time education suitable to the requirements of junior pupils who have not attained the age of five years where the school provides full-time education for junior pupils of the same age, or

(c)

full-time education suitable to the requirements of persons who have attained the age of nineteen years.

(3)

References in this Chapter, where proposals for a significant change in the character, or significant enlargement of the premises, of a school or for the transfer of a school to a new site have been approved or adopted under section 98 of this Act, to the proposals are references to the proposals as approved or adopted, subject to any modifications of the proposals under section 100(3) or (4) of this Act.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(2)(3), 583(2), Sch. 38 Pt. I (with savings in ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39); Sch. 13 paras. 6, 7 as saved continued (1.9.1999) by S.I. 1999/2267, reg. 2(2); and s. 154(4) expressed to be amended (11.9.1998) by 1998 c. 18, ss. 54(1), 55(2), Sch. 3 para. 25 (which amendment fell (1.4.1999) by reason of the repeal of the said Sch. 3 para. 25 by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(3), Sch. 31; S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(1), Sch. 1)