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  • s. 14(3)(aa) inserted by 2011 nawm 7 s. 16(2) (Amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk - s.16(02) of 2011 nawm007 omitted by 2013 nawm001 s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 13(2); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3) prior to commencement)
  • s. 18B inserted by 2011 nawm 7 s. 16(3) (Amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk - s.16(02) of 2011 nawm007 omitted by 2013 nawm001 s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 13(2); S.I. 2014/178, art. 2(f) (with art. 3) prior to commencement)
  • Sch. 22 para. 5(1B) inserted by 2023 c. 55 s. 235(4)

Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c.13)E+W

33E+WThe Further and Higher Education Act 1992 shall be amended as follows.

34E+WIn section 5(4) (administration of funds by councils), for “grant-maintained school” substitute “ maintained school ”.

35E+WIn section 21 (initial instruments and articles)—

(a)in subsection (1), omit—

(i)paragraph (a), and

(ii)“(b) in any other case,”;

(b)in subsection (2), omit—

(i)“orders and”,

(ii)in paragraph (a), “grant-maintained school or other”, and

(iii)in paragraph (b), “grant-maintained schools or other”; and

(c)in subsection (3), for the words from “a grant-maintained” to “earlier enactment)” substitute “ a maintained school, the governing body incorporated under Chapter III of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 ”.

36E+WFor section 25 substitute—

25 Transfer of property, etc. from foundation bodies.

(1)This section applies where a further education corporation is established to conduct an institution which, on the date the corporation is established, is a foundation or voluntary school belonging to the group of schools for which a foundation body acts under section 21 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

(2)Regulations may make such provision as the Secretary of State considers necessary or expedient in connection with the transfer, in any such case, of property, rights and liabilities from the foundation body to the further education corporation.

(3)Regulations under subsection (2) may, in relation to any such transfer of property, rights or liabilities—

(a)modify any provision made by or under any of sections 23, 24, 36 and 38 of this Act and Schedule 5 to this Act;

(b)apply any such provision with or without modifications;

(c)make provision corresponding or similar to any such provision.

(4)In this section “foundation body” and “group of schools” have the same meaning as in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

37E+WIn section 26 (transfer of staff to further education corporation)—

(a)in subsection (1), omit “or was a grant-maintained school”; and

(b)in subsection (6)—

(i)for “that authority” substitute “ references to that authority, and ”, and

(ii)for paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute—

(b)in relation to a corporation established to conduct an institution which, on that date, was a foundation or voluntary aided school, references to the governing body of that school.

38E+WIn section 28(2)(a) (designation of institutions as eligible for funds) after “school” insert “ (other than one belonging to a group of schools for which a foundation body acts under section 21 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998) ”.

39E+WIn section 32 (transfer of property, etc., to designated institutions), after subsection (2) insert—

(2A)In the case of an institution which when designated was a voluntary aided school, on the designation date—

(a)all land and other property which, immediately before that date, was property of the governing body of the school incorporated under Chapter III of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, and

(b)all rights and liabilities of that body subsisting immediately before that date,

shall be transferred to and, by virtue of this Act, vest in the governing body of the designated institution; and the governing body of the school shall be dissolved on that date.

40E+WIn section 37 (attribution of surpluses and deficits)—

(a)in subsection (1), for “section 103 of the Education Act 1996 (schemes for financing schools)” substitute “ section 48 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (LEAs’ financial schemes) ”; and

(b)in subsection (7), in the definition of “budget share”, for “Part II of the Education Act 1996” substitute “ Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 ”.

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Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 30 para. 41 repealed (28.7.2000 for specified purposes, 1.10.2000 for E. and 1.4.2001 for W.) by 2000 c. 21, s. 153, Sch. 11; S.I. 2000/2559, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I; S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2, Sch. Pt. I

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Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 30 para. 42 repealed (28.7.2000 for specified purposes and 1.10.2000 for E. and 1.4.2001 for W.) by 2000 c. 21, s. 153, Sch. 11; S.I. 2000/2559, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I; S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2, Sch. Pt. I

43E+WIn section 47(2) (transfer of higher education institutions to further education sector) for the words from “any provision” to the end substitute “ provision as to the initial name of the corporation as a further education corporation. ”

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Textual Amendments

F3Sch. 30 para. 44 repealed (1.10.2002) by Education Act 2002 (c. 32), ss. 215(2), 216, Sch. 22 Pt. 1 (with ss. 210(8), 214(4)); S.I. 2002/2439, art. 2 (with Sch.)

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46E+WIn section 90 (interpretation)—

(a)after subsection (3) insert—

(3A)In this Act references to a voluntary aided school are—

(a)in relation to any time before the appointed day within the meaning of the M1School Standards and Framework Act 1998, references to a voluntary aided school within the meaning of the Education Act 1996; or

(b)in relation to any time on or after that day, references to a voluntary aided school within the meaning of the 1998 Act.; and

(b)in subsection (5), at end insert “ and section 140(2) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 has effect for defining the expressions there mentioned. ”

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