Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
| Year | 2001 |
2001 No. 3785
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made 27th November 2001
Laid before Parliament 29th November 2001
Coming into force 1st January 2002
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 63 and 138(7) of the School Standards and Framework Act 19981, the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001, and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.
(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to England.
Amendment
2. The Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) Regulations 19992shall be amended as follows.
3. In regulation 3(1) (Duty to set school attendance targets), for “of the three school years” there shall be substituted “school year specified in the notice”.
4. In regulation 4 (Notice by the Secretary of State)—
(a) in paragraph (1)(b), for “of the three school years” there shall be substituted “school year specified in the notice;
(b) in paragraph (2)(b), for “of the three school years” there shall be substituted “school year specified in the notice”.
5. In regulation 5(1) (Condition precedent) the words “by at least 3 percentage points” shall be deleted.
Catherine Ashton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Education and Skills
27th November 2001
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) Regulations 1999 (“the principal Regulations”) in relation to England only on 1st January 2002.
Under the principal Regulations the Secretary of State may given written notice to the governing body of a maintained school to set an attendance target for each of the immediately following three school years.
These Regulations amend the principal Regulations to allow the Secretary of State to require an attendance target to be set for each of the school years immediately following the notice as she may specify.
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