Regulation 2 Amendment of the Education (Lower Primary Class Sizes) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

(1)

The Education (Lower Primary Class Sizes) (Scotland) Regulations 1999^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 3 (limit on lower primary class sizes)—

(a)

at the beginning of paragraph (1) insert “Subject to paragraph (5)”;

(b)

in paragraph (4)—

(i)

omit “Any limit” and insert “The limit of 30 pupils”;

(ii)

omit “this regulation” and insert “paragraphs (1) and (2)”; and

(iii)

at the end of sub-paragraph (a) insert “until the end of the school year beginning in 2010”; and

(c)

after paragraph (4) insert—

“(5)
In respect of the school year beginning in 2011 and each subsequent school year, in relation to a Primary 1 class, the limit on the number of pupils imposed in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be 25.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1999/1080 as amended by S.S.I. 2005/517.