{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/44",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Power of Secretary of State to prescribe standards for premises, etc., of educational establishments.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations prescribing standards and . . . requirements which are to apply to the premises and equipment of educational establishments under the management of education authorities ..., and regulations under this subsection may prescribe different standards or requirements in respect of such different classes (however defined) of educational establishment as may be specified in the regulations.\n(2) It shall be the duty\n(a) of an education authority to secure that the premises and equipment of any educational establishment under their management conform to the standards and requirements applicable to that establishment;\n(b) of the board of management of a self-governing school to secure that the premises and equipment of the school conform to the standards and requirements applicable to that school\nand, in particular, that the premises and equipment of all educational establishments under their management ... are maintained in such a condition as to conduce to the good health and safety of all persons occupying or frequenting the premises or using the equipment.\n(3) Where the premises or equipment of any educational establishment under the management of an education authority ..., do not conform to the standards or requirements applicable to that establishment ... or are not maintained as mentioned in subsection (2) above, the Secretary of State may, after consultation with the authority ..., direct that the premises or equipment be brought into conformity with the said standards or requirements or into the state of maintenance mentioned in that subsection (as the case may be) within a period to be specified in the direction; and it shall thereupon be the duty of that authority ... to comply with the direction.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 19(1) repealed (18.9.1996) by 1996 c. 43, s. 36, Sch. 6; S.I. 1996/2250, art. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(1) repealed (31.12.2004) by Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000 (asp 6), s. 61(2), sch. 3; S.S.I. 2004/528, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words from “of an education authority” to “that establishment” have become paragraph (a) of s. 19(2) by virtue of Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39, SIF 41:2), s. 82(1), Sch. 10 para. 8(6)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39, SIF 41:2), s. 82(1), Sch. 10 para. 8(6)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(2)(b) repealed (31.12.2004) by Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000 (asp 6), s. 61(2), sch. 3; S.S.I. 2004/528, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(3) repealed (31.12.2004) by Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000 (asp 6), s. 61(2), sch. 3; S.S.I. 2004/528, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words substituted by Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39, SIF 41:2), s. 82(1), Sch. 10 para. 8(6)(c)(iv)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/44/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:17.434244+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."
}