21 Kinds of foundation and voluntary schools and types of foundations

21  Kinds of foundation and voluntary schools and types of foundations

(1)     There may be three kinds of foundation school—

(a)     those having a foundation established otherwise than under this Act;

(b)     those belonging to a group of schools for which a foundation body acts under this section; and

(c)     those not falling within either of paragraphs (a) and (b).

(2)     There may be three kinds of voluntary controlled or voluntary aided school—

(a)     those having a foundation established otherwise than under this Act;

(b)     those belonging to a group of schools for which a foundation body acts under this section; and

(c)     those not falling within either of paragraphs (a) and (b) but having been either of the following immediately before the appointed day, namely—

(i)     a voluntary school, or

(ii)     a grant-maintained school that was a voluntary school immediately before becoming grant-maintained,

within the meaning of the Education Act 1996.

(3)     For the purposes of this Act—

(a)     “foundation”, in relation to a foundation or voluntary school, means—

(i)     any body of persons (whether incorporated or not but excluding the governing body) which holds land on trust for the purposes of the school, or

(ii)     a foundation

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