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title: "Education Act 1959(repealed 1.11.1996)"
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# Education Act 1959(repealed 1.11.1996)

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Education Act 1959(repealed 1.11.1996)
1959 c.60

## 1 {#section-1}

(1)—(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) For the purposes of section one hundred and five of the Education Act 1944 (which authorises the Secretary of State for Education and Science to make loans to the . . . governors of aided schools and special agreement schools for certain initial expenses involving capital expenditure), any expenses in respect of which the Secretary of State for Education and Science may make a grant under subsection (2) of this section shall be included in the expression “initial expenses”, and in determining the governors’ share of any initial expenses the amount of any such grant paid or payable in respect of them shall be taken into account in the same way as grants under sections one hundred and three and one hundred and four of that Act.
(5)—(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

## 2 Short title, citation and extent. {#section-2}

(1) This Act may be cited as the Education Act 1959, and this Act and the Education Acts 1944 to 1953, may be cited together as the Education Acts 1944 to 1959.
(2) This Act does not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.