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Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996

1996 c. 50 · Enacted 24 July 1996 · Extends to United Kingdom

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F1An Act to provide for the making of grants in respect of nursery education and to permit borrowing by grant-maintained schools.

[24th July 1996]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations to the whole text

Textual amendments

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Act repealed (1.4.2003 for E. and 2.1.2008 for W.) by Education Act 2002 (c. 32), s. 216(4), Sch. 22 Pt. 3 (with ss. 210(8), 214(4)); S.I. 2003/124, art. 4; S.I. 2007/3611, art. 4(1), Sch. Pt. 1

Contents

  1. Grants in respect of nursery education
  2. 1Arrangements for making grants. Repealed
  3. 2Delegation. Repealed
  4. 3Requirements. Repealed
  5. 4Children with special educational needs. Repealed
  6. 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  7. 6Disclosure of information.
  8. Borrowing by grant-maintained schools
  9. 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  10. Supplementary
  11. 8Orders and regulations. Repealed
  12. 9Financial provisions. Repealed
  13. 10Consequential amendments and repeals. Repealed
  14. 11Citation, interpretation, commencement and extent.
  15. Schedule 1
  16. Introductory
  17. 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
  18. 2Paragraph 2 Repealed
  19. General functions of the Chief Inspector
  20. 3Paragraph 3 Repealed
  21. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  22. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  23. Inspections
  24. 6Paragraph 6 Repealed
  25. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  26. Registration of nursery education inspectors
  27. 8Paragraph 8 Repealed
  28. 9Paragraph 9 Repealed
  29. 10Paragraph 10 Repealed
  30. Training
  31. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  32. Impartiality
  33. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  34. Reports of inspections
  35. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  36. Annual reports of the Chief Inspector
  37. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  38. Reserve powers of the Chief Inspector
  39. 15Paragraph 15 Repealed
  40. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  41. ...Paragraph ... Repealed
  42. Rights of entry
  43. 18Paragraph 18 Repealed
  44. Schedule 2: Nursery education grants: disclosure of information
  45. 1Paragraph 1
  46. 2Paragraph 2
  47. 3Paragraph 3
  48. Schedule 3: Consequential amendments
  49. The Education Act 1944 (c.31)
  50. 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
  51. The Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (c.40)
  52. 2Paragraph 2 Repealed
  53. The Education (Work Experience) Act 1973 (c.23)
  54. 3Paragraph 3 Repealed
  55. The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c.65)
  56. 4Paragraph 4 Repealed
  57. The Race Relations Act 1976 (c.74)
  58. 5Paragraph 5 Repealed
  59. The National Health Service Act 1977 (c.49)
  60. 6Paragraph 6 Repealed
  61. The Education Reform Act 1988 (c.40)
  62. 7Paragraph 7 Repealed
  63. The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c.13)
  64. 8Paragraph 8 Repealed
  65. The Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14)
  66. 9Paragraph 9 Repealed
  67. The Education Act 1993 (c.35)
  68. 10Paragraph 10 Repealed
  69. 11Paragraph 11 Repealed
  70. 12Paragraph 12 Repealed
  71. 13Paragraph 13 Repealed
  72. 14Paragraph 14 Repealed
  73. The Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c.23)
  74. 15Paragraph 15 Repealed
  75. Schedule 4Repeals

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6Disclosure of information.

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11Citation, interpretation, commencement and extent.

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This Act may be cited as the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996.

F2(2)

This Act shall be construed as one with the Education Act 1996.

P1(3)

The provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be appointed for different provisions and for different purposes.

(4)

Apart from section 6 and Schedule 2 and this section, this Act extends to England and Wales only.

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This Schedule applies to—

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civil servants in F2the Department for Education and Skills , civil servants in the Welsh Office and any other persons who carry out the administrative work of the Department for Education and Skills or the Welsh Office, and

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any person exercising any function by virtue of section 2 and any persons who are employed by (or are directors or other officers of) any such person or who carry out the administrative work of any such person.

(2)

In this Schedule “social security information” means information of a prescribed description which was obtained by reason of the exercise by the Secretary of State of any of his functions under the M1Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 or the M2Social Security Administration Act 1992.

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F1The Secretary of State may supply to any person to whom this Schedule applies any such social security information as the person may require for or in connection with the exercise of any function relating to grants in respect of nursery education.

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A person who is or has been a person to whom this Schedule applies is guilty of an offence if he discloses without lawful authority any social security information relating to a particular person which he acquired while acting as a person to whom this Schedule applies.

(2)

It is not an offence under this paragraph—

(a)

to disclose information in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable social security information relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it, or

(b)

to disclose social security information which has previously been disclosed to the public with lawful authority.

(3)

It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this paragraph to prove that at the time of the alleged offence—

(a)

he believed that he was making the disclosure in question with lawful authority and had no reasonable cause to believe otherwise, or

(b)

he believed that the information in question had previously been disclosed to the public with lawful authority and had no reasonable cause to believe otherwise.

(4)

For the purposes of this paragraph a disclosure is to be regarded as made with lawful authority if, and only if, it is made—

(a)

by a person in accordance with his official duty as a civil servant,

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by any other person either—

(i)

for the purposes of the function in the exercise of which he holds the information and without contravening any restriction duly imposed by the Secretary of State or by any person authorised by the Secretary of State, or

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to the Secretary of State or in accordance with an authorisation duly given by the Secretary of State or by any person authorised by the Secretary of State,

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in accordance with any enactment or order of a court,

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for the purposes of instituting, or otherwise for the purposes of, any proceedings before a court, or

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with the consent of the person to whom the information relates or of any person authorised to act on his behalf.

(5)

A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable—

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on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both, or

(b)

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both.

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