The Education (Eligibility of Primary Schools for Grant-maintained Status) Order 1990

Made: 16th October 1990

Coming into force: 1st November 1990

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 52(7) of the Education Reform Act 1988[^f00001] the Secretary of State for Education and Science, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Education (Eligibility of Primary Schools for Grant-maintained Status) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st November 1990.

• (2) In this Order “the Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988.

Eligibility of primary schools for grant-maintained status

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Subject to subsections (8) and (9) of section 52 of the Act, all primary schools which are county or voluntary schools shall be eligible for grant-maintained status.

Consequential repeals

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Section 52(6) of the Act (which provides for primary schools with less than three hundred pupils not to be so eligible) and section 52(7) thereof (which enables the Secretary of State to make this Order) are hereby repealed.

Signed

John MacGregor — Secretary of State for Education and Science — 16th October 1990

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 16th October 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 52(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988 provides that primary schools which have less than 300 pupils are not eligible for grant-maintained status. This Order removes that limitation and provides that all primary schools shall be so eligible, subject to the general provisions in subsections (8) and (9) of section 52. Subsections (6) and (7), which in consequence of this Order are spent, are repealed.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 40