
1 
This Order may be cited as the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1986.
2 
In this Order—
 “the Act” means the Education (No. 2) Act 1986;and
 “the 1980 Act” means the Education Act 1980.
3 
The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order (which relate to the matters mentioned in column 2 thereof) shall come into force on 7th January 1987, and the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order (which relate to the matters mentioned in column 2 thereof) shall come into force on 1st April 1987.
4 
The transitional provisions contained in Schedule 3 to this Order shall have effect in connection with the provisions brought into force by this Order which are referred to in that Schedule.
Kenneth Baker
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
10th December 1986
SCHEDULE 1

Provisions of the Act Subject matter of provisions
Section 17 Curriculum: duty of local education authority to state policy
Section 30 Governors' annual report to parents
Section 31 Annual parents' meetings
Section 33 Admissions
Section 44 Political indoctrination
Section 45 Duty to secure balanced treatment of political issues
Section 46 Sex education
Section 47(11) Abolition of corporal punishment: Northern Ireland
Section 50 Grants for teacher training, etc.
Section 51 Recoupment
Section 52 Recoupment: cross border provision
Section 53 School transport
Section 56 Reports to Secretary of State
Section 67(4), so far as it relates to paragraphs 5 and 7 of Schedule 4 to the Act Short title etc.
Section 67(6), so far as it relates to the repeals and revocation set out in the Appendix to this Schedule Short title etc.
Schedule 4, paragraphs 5 and 7 Consequential amendments
Schedule 6, so far as it relates to the repeals and revocation set out in the Appendix to this Schedule Repeals
APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE 1
PART I

Chapter Short title Extent of repeal
1944 c. 31 The Education Act 1944 Section 4Section 5In section 67(2), the words from “or whether” to “another”
1963 c. 33 The London Government Act 1963 In section 31, subsection (7)(a)
1980 c. 20 The Education Act 1980 Section 31Section 32Schedule 6
1980 c. 44 The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 Section 23(5) to (7)
1980 c. 65 The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 Section 68(5)
PART II

Number Name of Instrument Extent of revocation
S.I. 1970/1536 The Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1970 Article 4
SCHEDULE 2


Provisions of the Act Subject matter of provisions
Section 54 Change of status of controlled school to aided school
Section 55 Compensation payable by governing body on change from controlled to aided status
Section 67(4), so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 Short title etc.
Schedule 4, paragraph 1 Consequential amendments
SCHEDULE 3
1 

(1) This paragraph applies in relation to every county, voluntary and maintained special school.
(2) Sub-paragraph (3) below shall cease to apply in relation to such a school on the date upon which, following the coming into force of section 1 of the Act, there come into force, in relation to the school, articles of government made under that section.
(3) During such time as this sub-paragraph applies in relation to a school—
(a) the requirements contained in sections 30 and 31 of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the school, as though they were requirements imposed directly by those sections, instead of requirements to be imposed under the articles of government for the school; and
(b) section 30 of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the school, as though it included provisions corresponding to those contained in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act, and section 31 of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the school, as though it included provisions corresponding to those contained in paragraph 5 of that Schedule; references in those paragraphs to a “group” being taken to refer to two or more schools grouped under section 3 of the 1980 Act, and references to a “grouped school” to a school which forms part of a group.
(4) Paragraph (a) of section 30(1) of the Act shall have effect, in relation to the first report to parents prepared by the governing body of a school pursuant to that section, as though there were substituted for the words “their last report” the words “7th January 1987”.
2 
The coming into force on 7th January 1987 of section 33 of the Act does not apply in relation to arrangements for the admission of pupils to a school, if the arrangements are concerned with admissions to the school prior to the first day of the school's autumn term in 1988.
3 

(1) This paragraph shall have effect until the date upon which the repeal of section 31(8) of the London Government Act 1963 is brought into force.
(2) Section 51(12) of the Act shall have effect as though there were added to the end of that subsection the words “in its application to county and voluntary schools”.