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Section 476.
1 (1) For the purpose of enabling Independent Schools Tribunals to be constituted as occasion may require there shall be two panels.
(2) One of the panels (the “legal panel”) shall consist of persons who will be available to act when required as chairmen of such tribunals and shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor.
(3) The other panel (the “educational panel”) shall consist of persons who will be available to act when required as members of such tribunals and shall be appointed by the Lord President of the Council.
2 (1) A person is not qualified to be appointed to the legal panel unless he possesses such legal qualifications as the Lord Chancellor considers suitable.
(2) A person is not qualified to be appointed to the educational panel unless he has had such experience in teaching or in the conduct, management or administration of schools as the Lord President of the Council considers suitable.
(3) A person who is—
(a) an officer of a government department, or
(b) employed by a local education authority otherwise than as a teacher,
is disqualified from being appointed to either panel.
3 (1) Subject (in the case of a member of the legal panel) to sub-paragraph (2), a person appointed to be a member of a panel shall hold office as such subject to such conditions as to the period of his membership and otherwise as may be determined by the Lord Chancellor or the Lord President of the Council, as the case may be.
(2) No appointment of a person to be a member of the legal panel shall be such as to extend beyond the day on which he attains the age of 70; but this sub-paragraph has effect subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the [1993 c. 8.] Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75).
4 (1) Where an appeal is required to be determined by an Independent Schools Tribunal, the tribunal shall consist of—
(a) a chairman who is a member of the legal panel, and
(b) two other members who are members of the educational panel.
(2) The chairman and other members of the tribunal shall be impartial persons appointed from those panels by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord President of the Council respectively.
5 The Secretary of State may pay to the members of an Independent Schools Tribunal such remuneration and allowances as he may determine with the consent of the Treasury.
Section 479.
1 (1) A participation agreement shall provide that it may be terminated in accordance with this Schedule.
(2) A participation agreement shall not be capable of being terminated by either party otherwise than in accordance with this Schedule.
2 The proprietors of the school may terminate a participation agreement by giving three years' written notice to the Secretary of State or such shorter notice as he may in any particular case accept.
3 Subject to paragraph 4, the Secretary of State may terminate a participation agreement by giving three years' written notice to the proprietors of the school.
4 (1) If in the case of a participation agreement the Secretary of State—
(a) is satisfied that any condition applying to the school under the agreement or by virtue of regulations made under section 480 has been contravened, or
(b) is not satisfied that appropriate educational standards are being maintained at the school, or
(c) is not satisfied that section 550 (which provides that a person is not to be refused education at a school because section 548 would prevent his being given corporal punishment) is being complied with in relation to the school,
he may at any time terminate the agreement by written notice to the proprietors of the school.
(2) A notice of termination given under this paragraph may provide that it shall be treated as of no effect if the proprietors of the school satisfy the Secretary of State within such time as may be specified in the notice that they have complied with any condition so specified.
5 A notice of termination given under paragraph 3 or 4 shall contain a statement of the reason for which it is given.
6 The termination of a participation agreement shall not affect the operation of the agreement or of the assisted places scheme (including any regulations made under section 480) in relation to any pupil holding an assisted place at the school on the date of the termination.
Education Act 1996