The Education (Small Schools) (Wales) Order 2014

Made: 29 April 2014

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 30 April 2014

Coming into force: 22 May 2014

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them in section 15 and 32 of the Education (Wales) Measure 2011[^f00001], make the following Order.

Title and commencement

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The title of this Order is the Education (Small Schools) (Wales) Order 2014 and it comes into force on 22 May 2014.

Identification of small maintained schools in Wales

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• (1) This article defines a small maintained school for the purpose of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Education (Wales) Measure 2011 (“the 2011 Measure”).

• (2) A small maintained school is a school that contains fewer than 91 registered pupils on the third Tuesday in the January immediately preceding the date on which a proposal is made under section 11 of the 2011 Measure.

Signed

Huw Lewis — Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers — 29 April 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order identifies a small maintained school for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Education (Wales) Measure 2011 (“the 2011 Measure”). That chapter sets out the statutory framework for the federation of maintained schools. Section 11 of the 2011 Measure provides that a local authority may make proposals to federate schools and that certain provisions relating to publication and consultation do not apply to a proposal to federate only small schools.

Article 2 provides that a small maintained school is one with fewer than 91 registered pupils on the third Tuesday in the January immediately preceding the date on which a proposal is made under section 11 of the 2011 Measure.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2011 nawm 7.