
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Groups including Grant-maintained Special Schools) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 8th April 1994.
2 
“The 1993 Act” in these Regulations means the Education Act 1993.
3 
For the purposes referred to in section 187(1) of the 1993 Act Chapter IX of Part II of that Act is modified as follows:
(a) references to grant-maintained schools shall be read so as to includegrant-maintained special schools and references to grant-maintained status shall be construed accordingly;
(b) in section 126 the references to section 84(1) and to section 90(1) shall, in relation to a grant-maintained special school, be to those sections as modified by any regulations made under paragraph 14 of Schedule 11 to the 1993 Act;
(c) the requirements in section 127(2)(a) and (b) shall not apply in relation to a maintained special school established in a hospital.
John Patten
Secretary of State for Education
15th March 1994