Part 12: Miscellaneous Section 235: Transfer of land by local authorities Background
This section inserts a new paragraph (9A - Compulsory transfer to trustees) into Schedule 1 to the Academies Act 2010. Schedule 1 makes provision about land in relation to academies. Part 1 of the Schedule concerns land held by a local authority.
	The new paragraph inserted by the section relates to new premises provided by a local authority for an academy school for which site trustees already hold existing premises. For example, the premises of a Church of England school may be held on a charitable trust linked to the parish or diocese. (Not all site trustees are connected with a particular faith or denomination.) An individual landowner may have donated the existing land long ago for specific purposes – i.e. for a church school in the example already given; and the site trustees may hold the premises on a special trust which requires them to be used for those purposes. (Such site trustees should not be confused with academy trust companies that hold land as corporate property, to which the section would not apply.)