The Education (Variation of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2002

Referral of variations to the adjudicator

4.—(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, the requirements of section 89(5) and (6) (proposed variation of admission arrangements in view of a major change of circumstances) are to apply to a proposed variation made under regulation 3.

(2) The requirements of section 89(5) and (6) shall not apply to an admission authority in relation to the proposed variation of an admission number in any case where the statutory proposals giving rise to that variation have been approved—

(a) by the relevant committee under paragraph 3(2)(b) of Schedule 6 without modification of any proposed admission number, or

(b) (where paragraph 3(5) or (6) of Schedule 6 applies) by the adjudicator in accordance with paragraph 3(7) of that Schedule,

(whether or not the proposals have subsequently been modified by the adjudicator under paragraph 5(7) of that Schedule) provided in each case that, following such approval, the statutory proposals are not modified in relation to any admission number by the relevant committee pursuant to a request made under paragraph 5(2)(a) of Schedule 6.