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Education Act 1980 1980 c.20 An Act to amend the law relating to education. [3rd April 1980]
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- 20 Industrial scholarships.
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- 33 Discrimination by local education authorities.
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- 36 Expenses.
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- 38 Citation, construction, repeals and extent.
- SCHEDULE 1
- SCHEDULE 2
- SCHEDULE 3
- SCHEDULE 4
- SCHEDULE 5 PROVISIONS SUBSTITUTED IN THE EDUCATION ACT 1962
- SCHEDULE 6
- SCHEDULE 7
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(1) The Secretary of State may award industrial scholarships or make payments to any other person in respect of the award of such scholarships by that person. (2) In this section “industrial scholarships” means scholarships (however described) tenable by persons undertaking full-time courses of higher education provided by a university, college or other institution in the United Kingdom, being courses which appear to the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the person awarding the scholarships to be relevant to a career in industry. (3) In subsection (2) above the reference to a full-time course includes a reference to a course consisting of ernate periods of— (a) full-time study in the university, college or institution in question; and (b) associated industrial, professional or commercial experience; and the reference in that subsection to a course provided by a university, college or institution in the United Kingdom includes a reference to a course provided by such a university, college or institution in conjunction with a university, college or other institution in another country.
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Propose a change33 Discrimination by local education authorities.
(1) (2) In section 23(2) of the said Act of 1975 and section 18(2) of the said Act of 1976 (discrimination by education authorities) for the words “the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1974” and “the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1975” respectively there shall be substituted the words “ the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1980 ”. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament— (a) any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under this Act; and (b) any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of such moneys under any other Act.
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Education Act 1980. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) This Act shall, in its application to England and Wales, be construed as one with the Education Act 1996. (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (7) In this Act section 20 and this section extend to Northern Ireland, but save as aforesaid this Act extends to England and Wales only.
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The Education Act 1944 1 (1) In the provisions of the Education Act 1944 mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below the words “managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. (2) The provisions referred to above are sections 14(1), (3) and (4), 15(2), (3), (4) and (5), 16(3), 25(1) and (7), 31(3), 65, 67(1), 68, 80(1), 90(1), 95(2)(b), 99, 102, 105, 114(2)(a), paragraphs 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 of Schedule 2, paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 of Schedule 3 and Schedule 4. 2 (1) In subsection (1) of section 17 of that Act for the words from “managers or governors” onwards there shall be substituted the words “governors of the school in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and the instrument providing for the constitution of the body of governors is in this Act referred to as an instrument of government.” (2) In subsection (2) of that section for the words “The instrument of management or the instrument of government, as the case may be,” there shall be substituted the words “The instrument of government”. (3) In subsection (3)(a) of that section for the words “rules of management” there shall be substituted the words “articles of government”. (4) In subsection (4) of that section the words “instrument of management, rules of management” shall be omitted. (5) In subsection (5) of that section the words “management or” shall be omitted. 3 In section 18 of that Act for the words “instrument of management” and “managers”, wherever they occur, there shall be substituted respectively the words “instrument of government” and “governors”. 4 In subsections (1) and (3) of section 20 of that Act the words “managers or” shall be omitted and in subsection (6) of that section the words “managers or”, in both places, and “manager or” shall be omitted. 5 In section 21 of that Act the words “manager or” and “managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. 6 In section 22 of that Act the words “managers or” and “foundation managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. 7 In section 23(1) and (3) of that Act the words “rules of management or” shall be omitted. 8 In section 24(1) and (2) of that Act the words “rules of management or” and “managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. 9 In sections 27 and 28 of that Act the words “managers or” and “foundation managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 11 In section 77(5) of that Act the words “managers or” and “foundation managers or” shall be omitted. 12 In subsection (1) of section 103 of that Act the words “managers or”, in both places, shall be omitted and in subsection (3) of that section the word “managers” shall be omitted. 13 In section 114(1) of that Act— (a) in the definition of “Foundation managers” and “foundation governors” for the words from the beginning to “appointed” there shall be substituted the words “Foundation governors means, in relation to any voluntary school, governors appointed” and the words “managers or”, “foundation managers or” and “managers or” shall be omitted ; (b) in the definition of “Trust deed” the words “instrument of management”, “rules of management” and “managers or” shall be omitted. 14 In section 120(1)(c) of that Act the word “secondary”, in both places, shall be omitted. The Education Act 1946 15 In sections 2(1)(b). (3), (4) and (6) and 6 of the Education Act 1946 the words “managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. 16 In section 3(1) of that Act the words “managers and” shall be omitted. 17 In section 4(1) of that Act the word “managers” shall be omitted. 18 In section 7(2) of that Act the words “managers or” and “managers and” shall be omitted. The Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 19 In sections 4(3) and 10(3) of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 the words “managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. The Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) 20 In paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 the words “managers or” shall be omitted. The Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 21 In section 8(1) and (3) of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 the words “managers or” shall be omitted. The Education Act 1959 22 In section 1(4) of the Education Act 1959 the words “managers or” shall be omitted. The Education Act 1967 23 In section 1(2) and (4) of the Education Act 1967 the words “managers or”, wherever they occur, shall be omitted. The Education Act 1968 24 In section 3(4) of the Education Act 1968 the words “managers or”, in both places, shall be omitted. The Education (No. 2) Act 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Education Act 1973 26 In section 1(2)(a) of the Education Act 1973 the word “managers” shall be omitted. The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 27 In paragraph I of the Table in section 22 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 the words “managers or” shall be omitted. The Race Relations Act 1976 28 In paragraph I of the Table in section 17 of the Race Relations Act 1976 the words “managers or” shall be omitted. The National Health Service Act 1977 29 In paragraph 3 of Schedule I to the National Health Service Act 1977 the words “managers or” shall be omitted. The Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Education Act 1979 31 In subsection (2) of section I of the Education Act 1979 the words “managers or” shall be omitted and in subsections (3) and (4) of that section the word “managers” shall be omitted.
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