Paragraph 1
In this Part “discipline statement” means the written statement which the governing body of a school are required to make by virtue of, and in accordance with, such of the following provisions of the 1996 Act as is applicable in their case, namely—
subsection (2) of section 154 (as substituted with effect from 1st April 1998 by section 2 of the 1997 Act), or
subsection (2) of section 306A (which was inserted with effect from the same date by section 3 of the 1997 Act).
Where the governing body of any school are required to make a discipline statement by virtue of a provision mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), they shall make that statement in the period commencing on 1st April 1998 and ending on 1st September 1998.
Sub-paragraph (2) is without prejudice to the governing body’s duty from time to time to review that statement after the end of the period referred to in that sub-paragraph.