Section 3 Extension of power of Minister to require local education authority to pay for enlargement of a controlled school.C1

Subsection (1) of section one of the Education Act, 1946 (which empowers the Minister, if satisfied that it is expedient that a controlled school should be enlarged and that the enlargement is wholly or mainly required for the purpose of providing accommodation for pupils for whom accommodation would have been provided in some other voluntary school if that other school had not been discontinued or had not otherwise ceased to be available for the purpose, to direct that the expense of giving effect to proposals for carrying out the enlargement shall be payable by the local education authority) shall have effect as if, at the beginning of paragraph (b) thereof, there were inserted the words “ either (i) ”, and as if, at the end of that paragraph, there were added the words—

“or

(ii)

that the enlargement is desirable for the better provision of secondary education at the premises to be enlarged or for securing that there is available for the area of the authority a sufficiency of suitable secondary schools or for both those reasons, and is not likely to amount to the establishment of a shool of a new character.”