Explanatory note

These Regulations make incidental and transitional provision of general application in the fields of school reorganisation and admissions in consequence of orders made under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 (which make boundary and structural changes to local government areas in England).

Regulations 2 to 5 provide for transferee authorities, which will exercise the functions of a local education authority in consequence of an order under section 17 of the 1992 Act, during the period before the change made by the order takes effect, to make proposals or applications relating to the establishment, alteration or discontinuance of schools and certain matters in connection with school admissions.

Regulation 6 brings into effect in relation to transferee authorities the Secretary of State’s direction of July 1994, made under section 297 of the Education Act 1993, concerning the composition of local authority committees dealing with education matters. The direction is set out in the Annex to Department for Education Circular 19/94, copies of which may be obtained from Schools Organisation Branch, Department for Education and Employment, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, LONDON SW1P 3BT.