The Education (Grammar School Designation) (Amendment) Order 1999 No. 2456


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1999 No. 2456

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Education (Grammar School Designation) (Amendment) Order 1999

Made

27th August 1999

Coming into force

1st September 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 104(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1) and of the powers conferred by that section as it has effect by virtue of the Education (Substituted Grammar Schools) Regulations 1999(2) the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Education (Grammar School Designation) (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.

(2) In this Order "the designation order" means the Education (Grammar School Designation) Order 1998(3).

Designation of grammar school

2.-(1) The school to be established on 1st September 1999 as a voluntary controlled school and to be known as Dr Challoner's High School (being a school to be established in substitution for a county school of the same name which is to be discontinued on that date) is designated as a grammar school for the purposes of Chapter II of Part III of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

(2) Accordingly the Schedule to the designation order shall be amended by adding after "Dr Challoner's High School" (opposite "Buckinghamshire" in the left hand column) the words "(established as a voluntary controlled school on 1st September 1999)".

Further amendment of designation order

3. The Schedule to the designation order shall also be amended by omitting "Bristol" from the left hand column and "Cotham Grammar School" and "Fairfield Grammar School" from the right hand column.

Malcolm Wicks

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

27th August 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates a school to be established on 1st September and to be known as Dr Challoner's High School as a grammar school for the purposes of Chapter II of Part III of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. The school is to be established as a voluntary controlled school in substitution for a county school of the same name.

The order also amends the Education (Grammar School Designation) Order 1998 by omitting two schools in Bristol. Proposals for the two schools in Bristol to cease to have selective admission arrangements were published by the local education authority under section 35 of the Education Act 1996 and have been determined to be implemented under section 38 of that Act.

(2)

S.I. 1999/2102.

(3)

S.I. 1998/2219.


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