Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 21 of the Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (as amended by section 143 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994) provides that certain proposals by an education authority to make changes to one of their schools cannot be decided upon by the authority or consented to by the Secretary of State while procedures for possible acquisition of self-governing status for the school are pending.

The proposals so suspended are proposals to discontinue the school or to do any one of such other things to the school as the Secretary of State may by order prescribe.

This Order prescribes the other things in respect of which proposals will be suspended.

They comprise, essentially—

(a)

changing the site of the school;

(b)

changing the stages of education at the school (other than adding a nursery stage);

(c)

making or changing arrangements for a special class at the school;

(d)

introducing, varying or discontinuing arrangements for selective entry;

(e)

changing the school as regards the sex or sexes of pupils whom it admits; and

(f)

changing the school from a denominational to a non-denominational school.

Proposals to make any of these changes, as well as proposals to discontinue the school, will accordingly be suspended while procedures for the acquisition of self-governing status are pending.