Commentary on Sections Part 3 - School Organisation Section 48 - Publication and consultation
67.This section requires that school organisation proposals are consulted upon and published. The Code will set out requirements for consultation and how and when proposals are to be published. Proposers must publish a report on the consultation. The proposers must send copies of the published proposals to the Welsh Ministers and the maintaining local authority. The requirement to consult does not however apply in the case of proposals to discontinue a small school, which is one with fewer than 10 registered pupils on the third Tuesday of the preceding January (defined in section 56).   This date is the date upon which the Annual Schools Census currently takes place (and the number of pupils at a school on that date will therefore be known).