Regulation 7 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In Part 5 of the principal Regulations (government, conduct etc. of grant-maintained special schools), before regulation 16 there shall be inserted—

“Initial governors for maintained special schools becoming grant-maintained special schools

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Paragraphs 1(1) and (2), 2 to 6 and 7(1) of Schedule 7 to the 1993 Act, and section 59 of that Act to the extent that it gives effect to those provisions, shall apply in relation to maintained special schools becoming grant-maintained special schools, subject to the following modifications—

(a)

in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 7—

(i)

for “This Schedule applies” there shall be substituted “Paragraphs 1(2), 2 to 6 and 7(1) of this Schedule apply”, and

(ii)

for “grant-maintained school” there shall be substituted “grant-maintained special school”;

(b)

in paragraph 1(2) of that Schedule, for “Part II of this Schedule applies” there shall be substituted “Paragaphs 5, 6 and 7(1) of this Schedule apply”;

(c)

in paragraph 5 of that Schedule—

(i)

at the beginning of sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted “Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below;”

(ii)

at the beginning of sub-paragraph (3) there shall be inserted “Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below”; and

(iii)

after sub-paragraph (3) there shall be inserted—

“(4)

In the case of a school established in a hospital, if it is not reasonably practicable to appoint under section 71, or to appoint or nominate under section 74, of this Act a person who is a registered parent of a registered pupil at the school, then the person appointed or nominated must be a parent of one or more children of compulsory school age.”; and

(d)

in paragraphs 5(1), 6(1) and 7(1) of that Schedule, for “Chapter II” there shall be substituted “section 186(3)”.”.