{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-44D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-44D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/18",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005",
  "path": "section/44D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44D",
  "heading": "Copies of report and action plan",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to a report of an inspection under Chapter 3 which—\n(a) states an opinion that a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form, and\n(b) is made by a member of the Inspectorate or states that the Chief Inspector agrees with the opinion.\n(2) The person making the report must send a copy (together with a copy of the summary, if there is one)—\n(a) to the Welsh Ministers, and\n(b) if the person making the report is a member of the Inspectorate, to the appropriate authority for the school.\n(3) The following provisions apply (with the necessary modifications) in relation to a report to which this section applies—\n(a) section 38(3) (additional copies),\n(b) section 38(4) (publication by appropriate authority),\n(c) section 39 (action plan by appropriate authority), and\n(d) where the local authority receives a copy of a report about a school the governing body of which have a delegated budget, section 40(2) and (3) (measures by local authority).\n(4) In the application of those provisions—\n(a) a reference to a report and summary is to be taken as a reference to a report and, if there is one, its summary, and\n(b) a reference to a summary alone is to be taken, in a case where there is no summary, as a reference to the report.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 44A-44F and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2013) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), ss. 77, 100(4); S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 44D(3) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 18(6)(a) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(x) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 44D(3)(a) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 18(6)(b) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(x) (with art. 28)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/18/section/44D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:45.290138+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."
}