Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 1920
Education, England
The Education (Short Stay Schools) (Closure) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Made
27th July 2010
Laid before Parliament
30th July 2010
Coming into force
1st September 2010
The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 569(4) of, and paragraph 3A of Schedule 1 to, the Education Act 1996( 1 ):
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Short Stay Schools) (Closure) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st September 2010.
Transitional provision: references to “short stay school”
2. Until the coming into force of section 249(1) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009( 2 ) the Education (Short Stay Schools) (Closure) (England) Regulations 2010( 3 ) have effect with the following modifications—
(a) references to a “short stay school” or “short stay schools” wherever they occur are to be read as references to a “pupil referral unit” or “pupil referral units” respectively;
(b) in regulation 7, references to “the school” are to be read as references to “the unit”.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State
Department for Education
27th July 2010
1996 c.56 . Paragraph 3A of Schedule 1 was inserted by section 249(3) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c.22) . Section 249(3) will come into force on 1st September 2010. See section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996 for the meaning of “regulations”.
2009 c.22 . S.I 2010/303 was to bring section 249 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 into force in its entirety on 1 September 2010. S.I 2010/303 has been amended by SI 2010/1891(C. 99) which provides that section 249(1)and (2) will not now come into force on 1 September 2010 and that a transitional provision will apply to section 249(3) so that any reference in paragraph 3A of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1996 to a short stay school or short stay schools will be read as a reference to a pupil referral unit or units until section 249(1) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 comes into force.