PART IIITRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS CONSEQUENT ON THE COMING INTO FORCE OF CHAPTER II OF PART II OF THE 1998 ACT (ESTABLISHMENT, ALTERATION OR DISCONTINUANCE OF SCHOOLS)

Temporary governing bodies13

Where regulation 8 applies and a temporary governing body has been established in pursuance of an arrangement made under section 96(3) or 97(2) of the 1996 Act in anticipation of approval of proposals or the determination that they should be implemented–

a

that temporary governing body shall be treated for the purposes of the Education Acts as if they were a temporary governing body constituted in pursuance of arrangements made under section 44 of the 1998 Act; and

b

the school shall be treated for the purposes of section 44 of the 1998 Act as falling within section 44(1) of that Act, so that the said section 44 (except any provision made by or under that section relating to the making and termination of arrangements for the constitution of temporary governing bodies, and the constitution of such bodies) shall apply.