{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2013/1",
  "legislation_title": "School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Grounds for intervention",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Chapter, the grounds for intervention in the exercise by a local authority of its education functions are as follows—\nGROUND 1 - The local authority has failed, or is likely to fail, to comply with a duty that is an education function.\nGROUND 2 - The local authority has acted, or is proposing to act, unreasonably in the exercise of an education function.\nGROUND 3 - The local authority is failing, or is likely to fail, to perform an education function to an adequate standard.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 modified by 1998 c. 30, s. 19(13) (as substituted (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 3; S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 modified by 2005 c. 18, s. 114(8)(c) (as inserted (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 8(3)(c); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 applied (with modifications) by 2006 c. 21, s. 29 (as substituted (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 10; S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 excluded by 2010 c. 15, s. 87(4) (as inserted (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 11(3); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 excluded by 1996 c. 56, s. 560(6) (as amended) (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 2(7); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 modified by 2004 c. 31, s. 50A(3) (as inserted (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 7(3); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 applied (with modifications) by 2004 c. 31, s. 50A(1)(2) (as inserted (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 7(3); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 applied (with modifications) by 2010 c. 15, s. 87(3)(b) (as inserted (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 11(3); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 excluded by 1996 c. 56, Sch. 1 para. 6(4) (as amended) (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 2(8); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 2 excluded by 1996 c. 56, s. 484(7) (as amended) (W.) (20.2.2014) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 2(3); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in force at 20.2.2014 by S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(b) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/1/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:33.426523+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}