Education Act 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1959 c. 60 |
Education Act, 1959,
(7 & 8 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 60
An Act to enlarge the powers of the Minister of Education to make contributions, grants and loans in respect of aided schools and special agreement schools, and for purposes connected therewith.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Extended powers to make contributions, etc.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, in the following sections of the Education Act, 1944 (which provide for the making of contributions or grants by the Minister of Education in respect of aided schools and special agreement schools), that is to say—
(a ) section one hundred and two (maintenance contributions); and
(b ) section one hundred and three (grants for schools transferred to new sites or established in substitution for former schools); and
(c ) section one hundred and four (grants for schools established for accommodation of displaced pupils);
three-quarters of the expenses in respect of which the contribution or grant is made shall be substituted for one half as the amount of the contribution, or as the maximum amount of the grant, as the case may be.
(2) Where the Minister of Education—
(a ) has approved proposals submitted to him under subsection (2) of section thirteen of the Education Act, 1944, that a school proposed to be established should be maintained by a local education authority as a voluntary school, and has directed that the proposed school shall be an aided school; and
(b ) is satisfied that the establishment of the school is wholly or mainly due to the need of providing secondary education for pupils for whom primary education was provided at schools in the area to be served by the proposed school, being schools which—
(i) are aided schools or special agreement schools; and
(ii) either were aided schools or special agreement schools before the relevant date or were established in pursuance of proposals approved before that date under subsection (4) of the said section thirteen, or have replaced schools satisfying the conditions of this sub-paragraph;
then, subject to the provisions of this section, he may, out of moneys provided by Parliament, pay to the governors of the proposed school, in respect of any sums expended by them on the...
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