Commentary on Sections Academy orders Section 57: Academy conversions: federated schools
282.Section 57 makes amendments to AA 2010 to enable a federated school to apply for an Academy order without requiring the agreement of the whole federated governing body.
283.Subsection (2) inserts a new subsection (6) into section 3 of AA 2010 to allow regulations to make provision about the proportion of the total number of members of a federated governing body, and members of a particular description, that can apply for an Academy order on behalf of a particular school in the federation.
284.Subsection (4) amends section 7 of AA 2010, which deals with the transfer of school surpluses after a maintained school converts to Academy status. Subsection (4)(d) provides for the amount of any school surplus held by a federated governing body that should be attributed to a school in the federation converting to Academy status to be determined in accordance with regulations.