This Order may be cited as the Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Independent Schools) (England) (No 2) Order 2010.
Date made: 7 July 2010: (no specific commencement provision).
In this Order “the relevant religion or religious denomination” means the religion or religious denomination in accordance with whose tenets education is provided at the school or the school is conducted (or, as the case may be, each such religious denomination).
Date made: 7 July 2010: (no specific commencement provision).
(1) The schools listed in column (1) of the Schedule are designated as schools having a religious character.
(2) The relevant religion or religious denomination in relation to a school listed in column (1) of the Schedule is specified in relation to that school in column (2).
Date made: 7 July 2010: (no specific commencement provision).
P S A Jones
A Deputy Director in the Department for Education
7th July 2010
Date made: 7 July 2010: (no specific commencement provision).
This Order designates the independent schools named in the Schedule as having a religious character.
Under section 124A of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, independent schools which are so designated are permitted to take account of certain religious considerations in making specified employment decisions which relate to teaching staff.
Designation by this Order is not of itself a means of acquiring a religious character or of changing religious character. Designation is the recognition of certain existing attributes of the school or its governing body as described in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) (Independent Schools) (England) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2314, as amended by SI 2004/2262).
