Education Act 1996

[F1Non-maintained special schools in England: protection of pupils in an emergencyE+W

Textual Amendments

F1S. 342A and cross-heading inserted (30.3.2010) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), ss. 144, 173(4); S.I. 2010/1093, art. 2(a)

342AApplication to justice of the peace: power to make regulationsE+W

(1)Regulations may make provision conferring power on a justice of the peace, on the application of the Secretary of State, to make an order in an urgent case that a non-maintained special school in England should cease to be approved under section 342.

(2)Regulations under this section may in particular make provision corresponding, with or without modifications, to that made in—

(a)section 120(2) to (7) of the Education and Skills Act 2008 (emergency orders in relation to registered independent educational institutions), or

(b)section 122 of that Act (notification).]