Regulation 13 Provision of information

(1)

The school organisation committee shall, within two weeks of the date on which such proposals were sent to them, send to the Secretary of State a copy of all published proposals which are sent to them under section 31(5) (including proposals sent to the committee under section 31(5) as it has effect by virtue of Schedule 4 to these Regulations).

(2)

The school organisation committee shall, within the two weeks of the date on which they are notified of a determination made by a local education authority under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 6, sent a copy of such notification to the Secretary of State.

(3)

The school organisation committee shall notify the following persons of each decision taken under paragraph 3(2) or 5(2) or (3) of Schedule 6 or paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 7 relating to a maintained special school;

(a)

the body who published the proposals;

(b)

(if different) the local education authority who maintain the school or (in the case of a new school) who it is proposed should maintain the school;

(c)

(if different) the governing body of the school to which the proposals relate;

(d)

subject to paragraph (7), each objector; and

(e)

the Secretary of State.

(4)

The school organisation committee shall notify the persons referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) and (e) of paragraph (3) if they refer any proposals or matter relating to a maintained special school to the adjudicator under paragraph 3(5) or (6), or 5(5) or (6) of Schedule 6 or paragraph 8(5) or (6) of Schedule 7.

(5)

The adjudicator shall notify the persons referred to in paragraph (3) of each decision taken under paragraph 3(2) or 5(2) or (3) of Schedule 6 (as applied respectively by paragraphs 3(7) and 5(7) of that Schedule) relating to a maintained special school.

(6)

Where, pursuant to paragraph (3) the school organisation committee notify the persons referred to that paragraph of a decision they shall also give reasons for that decision.

(7)

Where objections to a proposal take the form of a petition (that is to say a document containing the text of one objection signed by more than one objector) the school organisation committee or the adjudicator may comply with paragraph (3) or (5) as the case may be by–

(a)

notifying the person (if any) who appears to them to have arranged for the petition to be sent to the local education authority or school organisation committee; or

(b)

if there is no such person, notifying the objector whose name appears first on the petition.

(8)

Where the proposals (“proposals A”) have been sent to a school organisation committee under section 31(5) or paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 7, and subsequently further proposals are sent to the committee under any of those provisions or under section 28(6) or 29(5) of the Act, which in the opinion of the committee are related to proposals A, the school organisation committee shall notify the body who published proposals A of that fact and of the effect of regulation 11(5).

(9)

Paragraph (5) shall not apply in relation to any decision provision for the notification of which is made by regulation 15 of the Education (Adjudicator’s Inquiry Procedure etc.) Regulations 1999^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1999/1286.