The School Lunches (Prescribed Requirement) (Wales) Order 2005

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the reference to a maintained school is a reference to a school maintained by a local education authority within the meaning of section 512(6) of the 1996 Act.

Prescribed requirement for school lunches
     3.  - (1) The following requirement is prescribed for the purpose of section 512(3)(a) of the 1996 Act.

    (2) A registered pupil who is receiving nursery education must be present for two full sessions on any day on which he or she attends school for there to be a duty to provide lunch on that day.

Transitional provision
     4. A pupil receiving nursery education at a maintained school for whom school lunches are being provided immediately before 1 April 2003 must, until that pupil ceases to receive nursery education, be treated as if there were no prescribed requirements applying to that pupil under section 512(3)(a) of the 1996 Act.

Revocation
     5. The Education (School Lunches) (Prescribed Requirement) (Wales) Order 2003[3] is hereby revoked.



Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[4].


D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

19 April 2005

[2] See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and section 211(1) and (2) of the Education Act 2002.back

[3] S.I. 2003/880 (W.111).back

[4] 1998 c.38.back