Paragraph 4
In relation to a pupil who is excluded from a school for misconduct which occurs wholly before 1st September 1998, the provisions of—
(a)
section 156(2) of the 1996 Act (in relation to a county, voluntary or maintained special school), or
(b)
section 307(1) of that Act (in relation to a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school),
shall continue to have effect without the amendments made by section 6 of the 1997 Act.