division_name: School Standards and Framework Bill - Transitional provisions and savings
motion: <p>Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill. <p>
   I beg to move amendment No. 116, in page 80, line 20, at end insert
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  '(2A) In Wales, the partnership shall have regard to the need for Welsh-medium nursery education to be accessible to all pupils.'.
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   Amendment made:  No. 144, in page 83, line 31, leave out from beginning to end of line 41.-- [Mr.  Don Foster.] 
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   Amendment made:  No. 76, in page 92, line 40, at end insert--
   
  '(3A) For the purposes of this Act references to disposing of land include references to--
   
  (a) granting or disposing of any interest in land;
   
  (b) entering into a contract to dispose of land or to grant or dispose of any such interest; and
   
  (c) granting an option to purchase any land or any such interest.'.-- [Mr.  Byers.] 
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   Amendments made:  No. 10, in page 94, line 37, at end insert--
   
  'new school (in Chapter IV of Part II)
   
  section 43(4)'.
   
  No. 2, in page 95, line 20, at end insert--
   
  'school opening date
   
  section (Arrangements for government of new schools)(9)'.-- [Mr.  Byers.] <p> 
   Amendment made:  No. 87, in page 205, line 25, at end insert--
   
  
    'Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 (c.39)   
  .--(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 (supply of goods and services by local authorities to public bodies) "public body" shall include any Education Action Forum established in an education action zone.
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  (2) The provision in sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect as if made by an Order under section 1(5) of that Act (power to provide that a person shall be a public body for the purposes of the Act).
   
  (3) An order under section 1(5) may accordingly vary or revoke the provisions of sub-paragraph (1) above as they apply to an Education Action Forum specified in the order.'.-- [Mr.  Byers.] 
   
   Amendment made:  No. 171, in page 205, line 25, at end insert--
   
  
    'Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c.12)   
  In section 1(7) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (saving for right of parents etc. to administer corporal punishment), for "teacher, or other person" substitute "or (subject to section 548 of the Education Act 1996) any other person,".'.-- [Kali  Mountford.] 
   
   Amendments made:  No. 74, in page 209, line 16, at end insert--
   
  '. In section 3 of the Charities Act 1993 (the register of charities), after subsection (5) insert--
   
  "(5A) In subsection (5) above--
   
  (a) paragraph (a) shall be read as referring also to any school to which section 21(8)(a) or (b) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 applies, and
   
  (b) paragraph (b) shall be read as referring also to any foundation to which section 21(9A) of that Act applies;
   
  but an order of the Commissioners, or regulations made by the Secretary of State, may provide that section 21(9A) of that Act shall cease to apply to any such foundation as is mentioned in that provision or to any such foundation of a description specified in the order or regulations." '.
   
  No. 75, in page 209, line 17, leave out 'the Charities Act 1993' and insert 'that Act'.
   
  No. 83, in page 219, line 47, leave out from 'etc.)' to end of line 49 and insert--
   
  '(a) in paragraph (a), for "county, voluntary, grant-maintained" substitute "community, foundation, voluntary"; and
   
  (b) omit paragraph (b).'.
   
  No. 28, in page 219, line 49, at end insert--
   
  ' .--(1) Section 519 (allowances for governors, etc.) shall be amended as follows.
   
  (2) In subsection (1), for the words from "travelling" to "section 115);" substitute "such allowances as may be prescribed to governors of--
   
  (a) any community, foundation or voluntary school or community or foundation special school which does not have a delegated budget (within the meaning of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998);".
   
  (3) In subsection (3) for "travelling and subsistence allowances" substitute "such allowances as may be prescribed".
   
  (4) After subsection (6) add--
   
  "(7) Regulations may impose a limit on the amount which may be paid by way of any allowance under this section." '.
   
  No. 78, in page 222, line 40, at end insert--
   
  '. In section 543 (relaxation of prescribed standards in special cases)--
   
  (a) in subsection (1), for "or (4)" substitute ", (4) or (4A)"; and
   
  (b) after subsection (4) insert--
   
  "(4A) This subsection applies, in relation to any playing fields used by the school for the purposes of the school, if the Secretary of State is satisfied that, having regard to other facilities for physical education available to the school, it would be unreasonable to require conformity with any prescribed requirement relating to playing fields.
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  In this subsection "playing fields" has the same meaning as in section ( Control of disposals or changing use of school playing fields ) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (control of disposals or changing use of school playing fields)."-- [Mr.  Byers.] 
   
   Amendment made:  No. 172, in page 223, leave out lines 9 to 13 and insert
   
  'Omit sections 549 and 550 (provisions about corporal punishment).'.-- [Kali  Mountford.] 
   
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   Amendment made:  No. 84, in page 235, line 8, column 3, at end insert--
   
  'Section 518(b).'.-- [Mr.  Byers.] 
   
   Amendments made:  No. 173, in page 235, column 3, leave out lines 40 to 44 and insert 'Sections 549 and 550.'.
   
  No. 174, in page 237, line 54, at end insert--
   
  '1997 c. 59.
   
  Education (Schools) Act 1997.
   
  Section 6(1).
   
  In section 7, in subsection (3)(a) "section 6(1)", and in subsection (4)(a) "(1) and".'.-- [Kali  Mountford.] <p> 
   Amendment made:  No. 112, in page 239, line 46, at end add--
   
  '6.--(1) This paragraph applies where--
   
  (a) at any time before the appointed day, whether before or after the date on which this Act is passed, any trustees (being entitled to do so) have given to the governing body of a former voluntary school a notice which is effective to terminate, on or after that day, the school's occupation of any land held by the trustees for the purposes of the school; and
   
  (b) the termination of the school's occupation of that land would have the result that it was not reasonably practicable for the school to continue to be conducted at its existing site.
   
  (2) Paragraph 7A(2) of Schedule 22 shall apply in relation to the land to which such a notice relates as it applies in relation to the land to which a notice falling within section 29(11) relates.
   
  (3) Section 29(13) and (14) shall apply, with any necessary modifications, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) as they apply for the purposes of section 29(11)(b).
   
  (4) In this paragraph "former voluntary school" means--
   
  (a) any voluntary school, or
   
  (b) any grant-maintained school which was a voluntary school immediately before becoming grant-maintained or was established by promoters,
   
  within the meaning of the Education Act 1996, which on the appointed day becomes a foundation or voluntary school within the meaning of this Act; and "the purposes of the school" has the meaning given by section 29(15).'.-- [Mr.  Byers.] 
   
   Order for Third Reading read. 
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   I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.
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  <p>Question put,  That the Bill be now read the Third time:--
  <p>The House divided:  Ayes 208, Noes 19.
   