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The Education (Information as to Provision of Education)(England)(Amendment) Regulations 2006

S.I. 2006/1033 · Made 31 March 2006

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EDUCATION, ENGLAND

Made 31st March 2006

Laid before Parliament 7th April 2006

Coming into force 30th April 2006

The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections section 29(3) and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996f1, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1996 c. 56.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and Commencement
  2. 2Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999
  3. 3Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999
  4. 4Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999
  5. 5Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999
  6. Signature
  7. Explanatory note

1Citation and Commencement

These Regulations may be cited as The Education (Information as to Provision of Education)(England)(Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 30th April 2006.

2Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999

The Education (Information as to Provision of Education) (England) Regulationsf1 shall be amended as follows.

3Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999

In regulation 2(1)

(a)

before the definition of “school year” insert—

  • “ “district” means the area of the council of a district where that council is not a unitary authority;”;

(b)

after the definition of “surplus places” insert the following definition—

  • “ “unitary authority” has the same meaning as in section 261(3) of the Housing Act 2004f1: the council of a district so far as it is the council for an area for which there are no district councils; and the council of any district comprised in an area for which there is no district council;”.

4Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999

In paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 1 for the word “four” substitute the word “five”.

5Amendment of Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999

After paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 insert the following—

  • “3A In cases where there the local education authority is the council of a county and not a unitary authority, a forecast for each district of the number of registered pupils firstly for whom primary education is provided and secondly for whom secondary education is provided, in community, foundation and voluntary schools maintained by the local education authority on 1st January in each school year for—

    1. (a)

      the following year;

    2. (b)

      the fifth year of the respective periods as provided in paragraph 3; and

    3. (c)

      the sixth year of the respective period as provided in paragraph 3(b) for pupils in the third key stage and fourth key stage (as defined in section 82(1)(c) and (d) of the Education 2002f1 only.”

Signature

Jacqui Smith

Minister of State

Department for Education and Skills

31st March 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999.

The amendments change the period for which local authorities must provide the forecasted figures of the number of pupils enrolled in primary schools from a four year period to a five year period.

They add an additional requirement for local authorities that are divided into districts to provide forecasted figures every year of the number of pupils per district for the following school year, the fifth year of the period and the sixth year of the period for key stages three and four only.