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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed/section-237",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/35",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1993 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed",
  "path": "section/237",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "237",
  "heading": "Supplementary provisions.",
  "text": "(1) An order under section 232 or 233 of this Act may not require any significant change to be made in the religious character of a voluntary school.\n(2) Where the governing body of a voluntary school make any proposals in pursuance of an order under section 232 or 233 of this Act—\n(a) the person or persons who are named in the school’s instrument of government as being entitled to appoint foundation governors (within the meaning of the Education Act 1944) shall be included among the persons who may submit objections to the proposals, and\n(b) the local education authority shall re-imburse any expenditure reasonably incurred by the governing body in making the proposals.\n(3) Proposals made in pursuance of an order under section 232 of this Act may not be withdrawn without the consent of the Secretary of State and such consent may be given on such conditions (if any) as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.\n(4) Where—\n(a) proposals made by the governing body of a voluntary school in pursuance of an order under section 232 or 233 of this Act are approved, or\n(b) proposals adopted by the Secretary of State under section 236 of this Act have effect as mentioned in subsection (3)(a)(ii) of that section,\nthen, notwithstanding anything in section 13(5) of the Education Act 1980, the local education authority shall defray the cost of implementing the proposals.\n(5) Notwithstanding anything in section 23 of this Act, a county or voluntary school is not eligible for grant-maintained status—\n(a) if the local education authority have made any proposals in pursuance of an order under section 232 of this Act to cease to maintain the school which have not been withdrawn and no determination whether or not to approve or implement the proposals has been made under section 12 of the Education Act 1980 or section 236 of this Act, or\n(b) if the Secretary of State has made any proposals under section 234 of this Act for the local education authority to cease to maintain the school which have not been withdrawn and no determination whether or not to adopt the proposals has been made under section 236 of this Act.\n(6) Section 273(4) and (5) of this Act does not apply in relation to any proposals under section 12(1)(d) or 13(1)(b) of the Education Act 1980 made in pursuance of an order under section 232 of this Act.\n(7) In sections 232 to 236 of this Act, “powers to make proposals for the alteration of their school”, in relation to the governing body of a voluntary school, means their powers to publish proposals under section 13(1)(b) of the Education Act 1980.\n(8) In sections 232 to 236 of this Act—\n(a) “powers to make proposals for the establishment, alteration or discontinuance of schools” means—\n(i) in relation to the local education authority, all or any of the powers to publish proposals under section 12 of the Education Act 1980,\n(ii) in relation to the funding authority, all or any of the powers to publish proposals under sections 48, 97 or 105 of this Act, and\n(iii) in relation to either authority, the power to serve notice of proposals under section 183 of this Act,\n(b) references to maintained schools include maintained special schools established in hospitals, and\n(c) references to grant-maintained schools include grant-maintained special schools.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1980 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/35/section/237",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:55.204351+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}