Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1429
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education (School Day and School Year) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made
9th April 2001
Laid before Parliament
10th April 2001
Coming into force
1st July 2001
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 551 and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996( 1 ), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Day and School Year) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st July 2001.
2. The Education (School Day and School Year) (England) Regulations 1999( 2 ) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3. At the end of regulation 3 there shall be added the following paragraph—
“ (6) In relation to the 2001–2002 school year, the reference in paragraph (2) to 380 sessions shall instead be taken as a reference to 378 sessions. ” .
4. There shall be added after regulation 4, the following regulation—
“ 5. —(1) Where a school session in the 2001–2002 school year is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training to which this paragraph applies, that session shall be regarded for the purposes of regulation 3 as a session on which that school has met.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not have effect in relation to more than two school sessions.
(3) Paragraph (1) applies to training relating to the teaching of pupils at the school who are in the third key stage ( 3 ) . ”
Estelle Morris
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
9th April 2001
1996 c. 56 ; section 551(1A) was inserted by paragraph 39 of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 (c. 44) , and section 551(2) was amended by paragraph 166 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) . The Secretary of State can exercise the power under section 551 only in relation to England: see article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672 ). For the meaning of “regulations” see section 579(1) of the 1996 Act.
S.I. 1999/3181 .
Defined in section 355(1)(c) of the 1996 Act.