Explanatory note

This Order brings into force on 6th January 1999 section 89 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, which requires admission authorities for maintained schools to determine the admission arrangements for their schools for each school year, and to consult other admission authorities before doing so. The Order contains a transitional provision to ensure that section 89 does not apply in relation to arrangements under which pupils will be admitted to schools before the school year beginning in 2000. There is also provision to ensure that account will be taken of any consultation which has taken place before section 89 comes into force.

The Order brings into force on 1st February 1999 provisions controlling the disposal or change of use of school playing fields by governing bodies, and provisions conferring powers to make regulations and orders relating to the establishment, alteration or discontinuance of schools and to the transfer of functions relating to school lunches to governing bodies.