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Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
7th July 1987
Laid before Parliament
22nd July 1987
Coming into force
15th August 1987
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 47(5)(a)(iii) of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986(1), 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 Regulations:-
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Abolition of Corporal Punishment) (Independent Schools) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 15th August 1987.
2. Each of the following classes of independent schools is hereby prescribed as a prescribed class for the purposes of section 47(5)(a)(iii) of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986, namely:-
(a)any independent school in receipt of grant under regulation 4(1) or 5(1) of the Direct Grant Schools Regulations 1959(2), and
(b)a school maintained by the Ministry of Defence.
Kenneth Baker
Secretary of State for Education and Science
7th July 1987
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
7th July 1987
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations prescribe the classes of independent schools where corporal punishment may not be lawfully administered. They comprise the existing direct grant schools and any Ministry of Defence school. The schools concerned are the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk; St Edwards College, Liverpool; TS Indefatigable, Anglesey; and the Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover.
1986 c. 61. For the expression"prescribed"see section 67(3) of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 and section 114 of the Education Act 1944 (c. 31), and for the transfer of functions to the Secretary of State see S.I. 1964/490, 1970/1536 and 1978/274.
