{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988/schedule-4/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education Reform Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In sections 43 and 50 of this Act—\n(a) any reference—\n(i) to special schools maintained by local education authorities;\n(ii) to a special school maintained by such an authority; and\n(iii) to special schools;\nshall be read as including a reference to any new school proposed to be established by a local education authority which will be a special school and which has a temporary governing body; and\n(b) any reference to the governing body of a special school shall be read as including a reference to the temporary governing body of such a new school.\n(2) References in section 50 of this Act to a local education authority who maintain one or more special schools shall be read as including references to a local education authority who by virtue of paragraph 28 of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act are under a duty to defray the expenses there mentioned in relation to the temporary governing body of one or more new schools such as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) above.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 paras. 1-3 applied (31.12.1995) by S.I. 1995/3114, reg. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:49.452107+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}