Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provisions where proposals are published under section 28 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 by the governing body of a grammar school to end selective admission arrangements.
Regulation 3 modifies Schedule 6 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to take account of the fact that the proposals can only be published by a governing body and not by local education authority.
Regulation 4 provides that such proposals will be of no effect if a valid petition requesting a ballot to determine whether a grammar school should retain selective admission arrangements is received after the proposals are published and before they are decided or if a valid petition has been received when the proposals are published but the ballot result date has not yet occurred.
Regulation 5 makes provisions for disregarding, for the purposes of the Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998, a school where such proposals fall to be implemented and regulation 6 makes a consequential amendment to the Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998.