Education Act 1959
1959 CHAPTER 60 7 and 8 Eliz 2
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.
[29th July 1959]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act amended by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 18(2)
C2Act amended by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 163(1), 231(7), 235(6)
C3Act modified by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 236(2)(a)
C4Act applied (1.8.1991) by Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 1991 (No. 2, SIF 41:1), s. 7(3)
C5Education Acts explained (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 1(6); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.1.
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent
1(1)—(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(4)For the purposes of section one hundred and five of the M1Education Act 1944 (which authorises the [F2Secretary of State for Education and Science] to make loans to the . . . F3governors of aided schools and special agreement schools for certain initial expenses involving capital expenditure), any expenses in respect of which the [F2Secretary of State for Education and Science] may make a grant under subsection (2) of this section shall be included in the expression “initial expenses”, and in determining the governors’ share of any initial expenses the amount of any such grant paid or payable in respect of them shall be taken into account in the same way as grants under sections one hundred and three and one hundred and four of that Act.
(5)—(8). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 1(1)–(3), (5)–(8) repealed by Education Act 1967 (c. 3), ss. 1(5)(d), (6)
F2Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1964/490, art. 3(2)(a)
F3Words repealed by Education Act 1980 (c. 20, SIF 41:1), s. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 22
Marginal Citations
2 Short title, citation and extent.E+W
(1)This Act may be cited as the Education Act 1959, and this Act and the Education Acts 1944 to 1953, may be cited together as the Education Acts 1944 to 1959.
(2)This Act does not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.