Education Act 1996

430 Co-ordinated arrangements for admissions

(1) In this section “co-ordinated arrangements for admissions”, in relation to any two or more maintained or grant-maintained schools, means arrangements under an agreement to which this section applies for the purpose of co-ordinating arrangements for admitting pupils to the schools concerned.

(2) Co-ordinated arrangements for admissions, if—

(a) contained in an agreement approved by the Secretary of State under this section, or

(b) made in pursuance of a scheme under this section,

and any provision contained in any other arrangements for admitting pupils to any maintained or grant-maintained school in pursuance of a scheme under this section, shall have effect in the case of any school to which they relate despite anything in section 411(2) or in the instrument or articles of government for the school.

(3) This section applies to an agreement made in relation to any two or more maintained or grant-maintained schools to which each authority responsible for determining the arrangements for admitting pupils to any of the schools is a party, whether or not any local education authority for any area in which any of the schools is situated is also a party.

(4) The Secretary of State may make a scheme under this section for the purpose of co-ordinating arrangements, or assisting in the co-ordination of arrangements, for admitting pupils to any maintained or grant-maintained schools to which the scheme applies.

(5) A scheme under this section may in particular require each authority responsible for determining the arrangements for admitting pupils to any of the schools to which the scheme applies—

(a) to include in their arrangements for admitting pupils such provisions as may be required by the scheme;

(b) to secure the making in accordance with the scheme of an agreement for the purpose of co-ordinating arrangements for admitting pupils to the schools to which the scheme applies; or

(c) to secure the modification in accordance with the scheme of any such agreement to which they are a party.

(6) Before making a scheme under this section the Secretary of State shall, in respect of each school which appears to him to be a school to which the scheme will apply, consult—

(a) the governing body, and

(b) in the case of a maintained school, the local education authority.

(7) A scheme under this section may apply—

(a) to all schools which for the time being are maintained or grant-maintained schools;

(b) to all schools which for the time being are maintained or grant-maintained schools falling within any category of such schools specified in the scheme; or

(c) to any maintained or grant-maintained school so specified.

(8) Section 570 (revocation and variation) applies to a scheme under this section as it applies to an order made by the Secretary of State.

(9) In this section “maintained school” means a county or voluntary school or a maintained special school which is not established in a hospital.