The Education (School Organisation Plans) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

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     4. In regulation 4-

(a) for paragraphs (3) and (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs-

    " (3) The authority shall  - 


(a) prepare a further draft plan every year up to and including 2003; and

(b) (without prejudice to paragraph (4)) prepare a draft plan every third year thereafter.



    (4) The authority shall in addition prepare a draft plan in any year in which they are not required to publish a draft plan by virtue of paragraph (3)(c) if there has been any change of policy or local circumstances relating to the provision of primary or secondary education since the last plan was prepared.";

(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted -

    " (5) The draft plan required to be published in 2003 shall be published by 1st August 2003.

    (6) The authority shall publish further draft plans by 1st June in the year that they are prepared.

    (7) Before publishing a draft plan the authority shall consult such persons as appear to them to be appropriate.".

     5. For regulations 6 and 7 there shall be substituted the following regulations - 

" Objections to and comments on draft plans
     6.  - (1) Any person may make objections to, or comments on, the draft plan.

    (2) Objections or comments to the draft plan required to be published in 2003 shall be sent to the authority within 11 weeks of the date of the publication of the notice under regulation 5 (or, if notices were published in different newspapers on different dates, the date of the publication of the last such notice).

    (3) Objections to, or comments on, draft plans published in subsequent years shall be sent to the authority within 2 months of the date of publication of that notice (or, if notices were published in different newspapers on different dates, the date of the last such notice).

Submission of draft plan to Committee
     7. Within one month from the end of the period referred to in regulation 6 the authority shall submit the draft plan (whether as published under regulation 5 or as revised in the light of objections or comments made under regulation 6) to the committee together with copies of - 


(a) all objections and comments made (and not withdrawn in writing); and

(b) the authority's observations on the objections and comments.".

     6. In regulation 8(5)(a) after "objections" in both places where it occurs there shall be inserted "and comments".

     7. In regulation 12(1) after "objections" there shall be inserted "and comments".

     8. In regulation 12(2)(a)(i) and (ii) after "objections" there shall be inserted "and comments".


David Miliband
Minister of State, Department for Education and Skills

1st May 2003

[2] S.I. 1999/701 amended by S.I. 2001/783.back