Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 3226
education, england
The Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006
Made
4th December 2006
Laid before Parliament
11th December 2006
Coming into force
1st January 2007
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 569(4) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Education Act 1996( 1 ), makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and application
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006 and come into force on 1 st January 2007.
(2) These Regulations apply to England.
Amendment of the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2005
2. —(1) Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2005( 2 ) is amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph 14A substitute—
“ 14A. —(1) Regulations 11, 15A and 18A of the School Staffing (England) Regulations 2003 ( 3 ) apply to units ( 4 ) as they apply to community, voluntary controlled, community special and maintained nursery schools with the following modifications.
(2) In regulation 11—
(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—
“ (1) This paragraph applies to a person whom an authority approves for appointment as a member of staff. ” ,
(b) in paragraph (2) for “any such person” substitute “a person to whom paragraph (1) applies”, and
(c) after paragraph (14) insert—
“ (15) In this regulation “member of staff” includes a person who works in the temporary absence of a member of staff (but does not include a person supplied by an employment business).”. ”
(2) In regulation 15A—
(a) in paragraph (1) for “or (as the case may be) the governing body have” substitute “has”, and
(b) in paragraph (5) omit “or (as the case may be) the governing body”. ”
Jim Knight
Minister of State
Department for Education and Skills
4th December 2006
1996 c. 56 . See section 579(1) for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”. By virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 ), the powers conferred by these provisions are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England.
S.I. 2005/2039 , amended by S.I. 2006/1068 .
S.I. 2003/1963 , amended by S.I. 2006/1067 and S.I. 2006/3197 .
A “unit” is a pupil referral unit: see regulation 1(3) of the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2005. See section 19(2) of the Education Act 1996 for the definition of “pupil referral unit”.