Deregulation (Provision of School Action Plans) Order 1997

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1997/1142
Year1997

1997No. 1142

DEREGULATION

The Deregulation (Provision of School Action

Plans) Order 1997

21stMarch1997

4thApril1997

Whereas:

(a) the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the Secretary of State for Wales ("the Secretaries of State") are of the opinion that certain provisions of the School Inspections Act 1996( a) and which are the subject of this Order impose burdens affecting persons in the carrying on of a trade business, profession or otherwise and that by amending the provisions concerned it is possible to remove or reduce the burdens so imposed without removing any necessary protection;(b) the Secretaries of State have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by their proposals and such other persons as they consider appropriate;(c) it appears to the Secretaries of State that it is appropriate, following that consultation, to proceed with the making of this Order;(d) a document setting out their proposals has been laid before Parliament as required by section 3 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994( b) and the period for Parliamentary consideration under section 4 of that Act has expired;(e) a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in respect of England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, in respect of Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994( c), hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Deregulation (Provision of School Action Plans) Order 1997 and shall come into force fourteen days after the day on which it is made.

(2) This Order does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.

(3) In this Order "the Act" means the School Inspections Act 1996. Provision of school action plans

2. In section 17 of the Act (duty of appropriate authority for county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school to provide copies of statement of action following school inspection), after subsection (6) there shall be inserted—

"(6A) The duty under subsection (6)(c) shall be taken to be satisfied by the appropriate authority if they—

(a) 1996 c. 57. The provisions of the 1996 Act consolidate provisions of the Education...

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