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The School Organisation Code (Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2013

W.S.I. 2013/1799 · Made 16 July 2013

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Education, Wales

Made 16 July 2013

The Welsh Ministers in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 39(4) of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013f1 make the following Order:

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Contents

  1. 1Title and application
  2. 2Appointed Day
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Title and application

(1)

The title of this Order is the School Organisation Code (Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2013.

(2)

This Order applies in relation to Wales.

2Appointed Day

The day appointed for the coming into force of the School Organisation Code (a copy of a draft of which was laid before the National Assembly for Wales on 29 April 2013) is 1 October 2013.

Signature

Huw Lewis

Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers

16 July 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 1 October 2013 as the day on which the School Organisation Code (“the Code”) issued under sections 38 and 39 of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (“the SSOA 2013”) by the Welsh Ministers, comes into force.

The Code applies in relation to Wales and in respect of school organisation proposals published on or after 1 October 2013.

The Code imposes requirements and includes guidelines setting out aims, objectives or other matters in relation to school organisation proposals made under Part 3 of the SSOA 2013. Under section 38(4) of the SSOA 2013, it is the duty of the Welsh Ministers, local authorities, the governing bodies of maintained schools and other persons, when exercising functions under Part 3 of the SSOA 2013, to act in accordance with any relevant provisions of the Code. In addition, any other person, when exercising any function for the purpose of the discharge by the Welsh Ministers, a local authority or the governing body of a maintained school of functions under that Part, must act in accordance with any relevant provisions of the Code.