division_name: School Standards and Framework Bill - Grant Maintained Schools
motion: <p> 
   Amendment made:  No. 86, in page 11, line 43, leave out 'shall' and insert 'may'.-- [Mr.  Byers.] 
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  (8) Despite subsection (7), nothing in any of the following provisions, namely--
   
  (a) section 35,
   
  (b) section 36(1) or (2), or
   
  (c) (subject to any regulations made by virtue of subsection (5)) any of Schedules 9 to 12,
   
  applies to any temporary governing body.
   
  (9) In this Part "school opening date", in relation to a new maintained school, means the date when the school first admits pupils.'.-- [Mr.  Byers.] 
   
   Brought up, and read the First time. 
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   I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
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     Mr. Deputy Speaker  (Sir Alan Haselhurst):   
   With this, it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 4, 5, 9, 1, 81, 6 to 8, 3, 14 to 22, 66, 67, 11, 23, 24, 10, 2 and 28.
   
  
  <p>Question put and agreed to. 
  <p>Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill. 
  
   <p>
   
   Brought up, and read the First time. 
  
  <p>
   I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
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   The new clause concerns rate relief. It does not affect the existing provisions for rates which would be outside the Bill's scope. It simply mirrors the existing provisions as they affect schools and simply rolls forward the existing arrangements into the new framework. It does not affect schools themselves financially, but simply clarifies the position and introduces a degree of certainty which the Government feel will be of benefit. This is a technical new clause.
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    Question put and agreed to. 
  <p>Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill. 
  
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  (8) For the purposes of this section any reference to a maintained school includes, in relation to any time falling before the appointed day, a reference to the school as--
   
  (a) a county, voluntary or maintained special school, or
   
  (b) a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school,
   
  within the meaning of the Education Act 1996.
   
  (9) Nothing in this section applies in relation to Wales.'.-- [Mr.  Blunkett.] 
   
   Brought up, and read the First time. 
  
  <p>
   I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
   
  
  <p> 
     Mr. Deputy Speaker  (Mr. Michael J. Martin):   
   With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 77, 76 and 78.
   
  
  <p>Question put and agreed to. 
  <p>Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill. 
  <p>(g) specify how the result of such a ballot is to be ascertained;
   
  (h) enabling the Secretary of State, in any prescribed circumstances, to declare a previous ballot under this section void and require the holding of a fresh ballot;
   
  (i) requiring anything falling to be done under the regulations to be done within such period as may be specified in or determined in accordance with the regulations;
   
  (4) Ballot regulations may provide for a request for a ballot under this section to be made, in any prescribed circumstances, by means of two or more petitions.
   
  (5) The information required to be provided in pursuance of subsection (3)(e) may include the names and addresses of parents of any prescribed description.
   
  (6) Where--
   
  (a) a ballot has been held under this section, and
   
  (b) the result of the ballot was to the effect that the schools or school in question should retain grant-maintained status,
   
  no further ballot relating to the schools or school shall be held under this section within five years.
   
  (7) An authority or body to whom this subsection applies shall not--
   
  (a) publish any material which, in whole or in part, appears designed to influence the result of a ballot under this section, or
   
  (b) give any financial or other assistance to a person for the publication of material, which the authority or body are prohibited by this subsection from publishing themselves, or
   
  (c) otherwise incur any expenditure, or give any assistance, for the purpose of influencing the outcome of a ballot under this section.
   
  (8) Subsection (7) applies to--
   
  (a) any local education authority, and
   
  (b) the governing body of any maintained school within the meaning of section 95 and in the case of the governing body of such a school which has a delegated budget within the meaning of Part II of this Act (or, in relation to any time before the appointed day, Part II of the Education Act 1996) the reference to expenditure in subsection (7)(c) is to expenditure out of the school's budget share.
   
  (9) In this section, "ballot regulations" means regulations made under this section.'.-- [Mr.  Dorrell.] 
   
   Brought up, and read the First time. 
  
  <p>
   I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
   
  
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      Mr. Deputy Speaker:   
   With this, it will be convenient to discuss amendment No. 113, in schedule 2, page 99, line 39, at end insert,
   
  
  <p>Question put,  That the clause be read a Second time:--
  <p>The House divided:  Ayes 129, Noes 327.
  