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The Education and Adoption Act 2016 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2018

S.I. 2018/300 · Made 5 March 2018

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Education, England And Wales

Made 5th March 2018

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 19(2) of the Education and Adoption Act 2016f1, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2016 c.6.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Provisions coming into force on 7th March 2018
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Education and Adoption Act 2016 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2018.

2Provisions coming into force on 7th March 2018

The following provisions of the Education and Adoption Act 2016 come into force on 7th March 2018:

(a)

section 15 (local authority adoption functions: joint arrangements); and

(b)

section 16(c) (consequential repeals).

Signature

Nadhim Zahawi

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Education

5th March 2018

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are the fourth commencement regulations made under the Education and Adoption Act 2016 (“the Act”).

These Regulations appoint 7th March 2018 as the day for the coming into force of section 15 and section 16(c) of the Act. Section 15 provides for the repeal of section 3A and brings into force section 3ZA of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Section 16(c) provides for the repeal of section 4 of the Children and Families Act 2014 which inserted section 3A into the Adoption and Children Act 2002. These Regulations bring the Act into full force.