The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) (Wales) Order 2009

Made: 14 January 2009

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the National Assembly for Wales by sections 181 and 188(3) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006[^f00001], and now vested in them[^f00002], make the following Order:

Title

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The title of this Order is the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) (Wales) Order 2009.

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Section 55 (Right of sixth form pupils to be excused from attendance at religious worship) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 is to come into force on 9 February 2009 in relation to Wales.

Signed

Jane Hutt — Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers — 14 January 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order brings section 55 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (the 2006 Act) into force on 9 February 2009.

Section 55 of the 2006 Act amends section 71 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 so as to enable sixth form pupils at maintained schools to withdraw from religious worship and so as to require a governing body to make arrangements for giving sixth form pupils who are boarders, if they so request, a reasonable opportunity to attend religious education or worship in accordance with the tenets of a particular religion. It also requires regulations to make provision enabling sixth form pupils at maintained special schools to withdraw from religious worship.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c. 40.

[^f00002]: By virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).