Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision for enactments relating to grant–maintained schools (or schools including such schools) to have effect in relation to the transfer to education associations of responsibility for the conduct of schools or their subsequent conduct by education associations pursuant to orders made under section 220 of the Education Act 1993.

Regulation 2 provides for the enactments referred to in Schedule 1 to have effect in relation to the conduct of schools by education associations with the modifications in that Schedule.

Regulation 4 provides for certain provisions of Part II of the Education Act 1993 (which concerns grant–maintained schools) to have effect in relation to the transfer to an education association of responsibility for the conduct of a school and its subsequent conduct with the modifications in Schedule 3.

Regulation 3 makes transitional provisions for certain provisions of Chapter IV of Part I of the Education Reform Act 1988 (which concerns grant–maintained schools) to have effect in relation to the transfer to an education association of responsibility for the conduct of a school and its subsequent conduct with the modifications in Schedule 2 until all the relevant provisions of Part II of the 1993 Act are in force.