Article 2 Duties imposed on governing bodies

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), duties corresponding to the duties of the local education authority specified in paragraph (2) are hereby imposed on the governing body of each school to which this article applies.

(2)

The duties referred to in paragraph (1) are:–

(a)

the duty to provide school lunches in accordance with section 512(1A) and (1B) of the 1996 Act^f1; and

(b)

the duty to provide school lunches free of charge in accordance with section 512(3)(a) of the 1996 Act^f2.

(3)

The duty referred to in paragraph 2(a) shall not however be imposed on the governing body of any school until section 512(1A) and (1B) of the 1996 Act is in force.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 512 (1A) and (1B) were inserted by section 115 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
f2: Section 512(3) is amended by section 115 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.