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122. The expressions listed in the left-hand column below are defined by, or (as the case may be) are to be interpreted in accordance with, the provisions of this Act listed in the right-hand column in relation to those expressions. |
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ability (in Chapter II of Part III) | section 90(5) |
adjudicator | section 24(3) |
admission arrangements (in Part III in relation to a maintained school) | section 79(2) |
admission authority (in Chapter I of Part III) | section 79(1) |
admitted to a school for nursery education | section 121(3) |
aggregated schools budget (in Part II) | section 44(2) |
alteration (in Part II in the context of a prescribed alteration to a maintained school) | section 27(11) |
appeal panel (in Chapter I of Part III) | section 75(5) |
appointed day | section 20(6) |
appropriate diocesan authority (in relation to a Church in Wales, Church of England or Roman Catholic Church school) | section 121(1) |
appropriate further education funding council | section 121(1) |
area (in Part II) | section 27(11) |
budget share (in Part II) | section 45(1) |
Chief Inspector (in Chapter IV of Part I) | section 14(4) |
child (in Chapter I of Part III but not in sections 87 and 88) | section 75(5) |
Church in Wales school | section 121(1) |
Church of England school | section 121(1) |
class (in Chapter I of Part I) | section 4 |
discontinuing, and implementing proposals to discontinue, a school (in Part II in relation to a local education authority) | section 28(10) |
exclude, exclusion | section 61(4) |
foundation (in relation to a foundation or voluntary school) (and having a foundation) | section 21(3) |
foundation body | section 21(4) |
foundation governor | paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 |
general schools budget (in Part II) | section 44(1) |
governing body (of a maintained school or of a school maintained by a local education authority) (in Chapter IV of Part II) | section 43(3) |
grammar school (in Chapter II of Part III) | section 95(6) |
group (in relation to a foundation body) | section 21(4) |
infant class (in Chapter I of Part I) | section 4 |
local education authority (in relation to a school maintained, or proposed to be maintained, by such an authority) | section 22(8) |
maintain (in relation to a maintained school or a maintained nursery school) | section 22(8) |
maintained school | |
(generally) | section 20(6) |
(in Chapter IV of Part II in a context referring to a local education authority) | section 43(3) |
(in Chapter I of Part III) | section 75(5) |
(in Chapter II of Part III) | section 90(5) |
maintained nursery school | section 22(9) |
member of the Inspectorate (in Chapter IV of Part I) | section 14(4) |
nursery education (in Part V) | section 104 |
ordinary teaching session (in Chapter I of Part I) | section 4 |
participating school (in Chapter III of Part I in relation to an education action zone) | section 10(6) |
prescribed | section 121(1) |
promoters (in Part II) | section 27(2) |
qualified teacher (in Chapter I of Part I in relation to an infant class) | section 4 |
reception class | section 121(1) |
regulations | section 121(1) |
relevant age group | section 121(1) |
relevant standard number (in Chapter I of Part III) | section 75(5) |
right to a delegated budget (in Part II) | section 47(9) |
Roman Catholic Church school | section 121(1) |
scheme (in Part II in relation to a maintained school) | section 46(5) |
school having a delegated budget (in Part II) | section 47(9) |
school maintained by a local education authority | |
(generally) | section 121(1) |
(in Chapter IV of Part II) | section 43(3) |
school organisation committee | section 23(4) |
school requiring special measures (in Chapter IV of Part I) | section 14(4) |
school which has (or does not have) a religious character (in Chapter V of Part II) | section 56(1) |
school which has a religious character (in Part II in relation to a foundation or voluntary school) | section 65(3) |
school which has selective admission arrangements (in Chapter II of Part III) | section 95(2) |
statutory provision | section 121(1) |
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Transitional provisions etc. |
123. - (1) The Secretary of State may at any time by order make such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provision as appears to him to be necessary or expedient for the general purposes, or any particular purposes, of this Act or in consequence of any of its provisions or for giving full effect to it. |
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(2) An order under subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision- |
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(a) for enabling any authority or body by whom any functions will become exercisable on the appointed day by virtue of any provision made by or under this Act to take before that day any steps (such as the establishment of committees or the undertaking of consultation) which are necessary or expedient in preparation for the exercise of those functions; |
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(b) for requiring any body- |
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(i) by whom any functions will cease to be exercisable at any time, or
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(ii) who are required to be reconstituted as from any time,
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by virtue of any provision made by or under this Act to take before that time any steps (such as the provision of information, the furnishing of other assistance or the taking of any decision) which are necessary or expedient in preparation for the exercise of functions conferred on any authority or other body, by virtue of any such provision, as from that time or (as the case may be) in preparation for their reconstitution; |
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(c) for the making before the appointed day of arrangements for securing the satisfactory operation from that day of any such provision and for defraying the cost of any such arrangements; |
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(d) for prohibiting or restricting the taking of steps before the appointed day which, by virtue of any such provision, will cease to be capable of being taken as from that day; |
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(e) for enabling the determination under the order of matters pending immediately before the appointed day; |
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(f) for any provision of this Act which comes into force before- |
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(i) another such provision has come into force, or
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(ii) anything falling to be done under another such provision (such as the approval of a school organisation plan) has been done,
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to have effect, until that other provision has come into force or (as the case may be) that thing has been done, with such modifications as are specified in the order; |
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(g) for amending, repealing or revoking (with or without savings) any statutory provision passed or made before the appointed day, for applying any such provision (with or without modification) and for making savings or additional savings from the effect of any amendment or repeal made by this Act. |
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(3) The amendments that may be made under subsection (2)(g) shall be in addition (and without prejudice) to those made by any other provision of this Act. |
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(4) Nothing in this Act shall be read as prejudicing the generality of subsection (1). |
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(5) The transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 30 shall have effect. |
Short title, commencement and extent. |
124. - (1) This Act may be cited as the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. |
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(2) This Act shall be included in the list of Education Acts set out in section 578 of the Education Act 1996. |
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(3) Subject to subsections (4) to (6), this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be appointed for different provisions and for different purposes. |
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(4) The following provisions come into force on the day on which this Act is passed- |
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sections 20 and 21 (other than subsections (8) and (9)); |
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sections 118, 119, 121 and 123 and this section; |
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Parts I and III of Schedule 11; and |
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(5) The following provisions come into force on the day on which this Act is passed, but for the purposes only of the allocation and determination of budget shares for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999- |
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section 48(3) and (4); and |
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(6) The following provisions come into force on the day on which this Act is passed, but for the purposes only of the preparation of instruments of government and the constitution of governing bodies- |
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sections 35(1) and (2) and 36(1) and (2); and |
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(7) Subject to subsection (8), this Act extends to England and Wales only. |
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(8) The amendment or repeal by this Act of an enactment extending to Scotland or Northern Ireland extends also to Scotland or, as the case may be, Northern Ireland. |