
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Schools and Further Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 10th December 1998.
2 
Regulation 10 of the Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981, shall be amended by the following provisions of these Regulations.
3 
In paragraph (2), for the words, “In each academic year a school shall meet for not less than 380 sessions which shall constitute the school year”, there shall be substituted the words, “At least 380 sessions shall be held at a school during any school year”.
4 
For paragraphs (6A) and (7) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs–“
(7) Where a school session in the 1998/99 school year is devoted wholly or mainly to the provision to teachers employed at that school of training to which this paragraph applies, that session shall be regarded for the purposes of this regulation as a session on which that school has met:Provided that this paragraph shall–
(a) apply only in relation to schools situated in England;
(b) apply only in relation to sessions on or after 1st May; and
(c) not have effect in relation to more than two such sessions.
(8) Paragraph (7) applies to training related to the teaching of numeracy or literacy, or both, for pupils in the first or second key stage.
(9) In this regulation–
 “school year” means the period beginning with the first school term to begin after July and ending with the beginning of the first such term to begin after the following July; and
 the reference to the first or second key stage is a reference to the period set out in section 355(1)(a) or (b), as the case may be, of the Education Act 1996.”
Estelle Morris
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
12th November 1998