(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
Article 16 of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 requires the Board of Governors of each grant-aided school to draw up the criteria to be applied in selecting children for admission to the school. It also enables the Department of Education to make Regulations requiring the criteria to include, or not to include, such matters or matters of such description as are specified in the Regulations.
These Regulations specify matters to be included, and matters not to be included, in the criteria for the admission of children to grant-aided primary schools in the 1998/99 and subsequent school years.
Regulation 4 specifies matters which the criteria shall include.
Regulation 5 specifies matters which the criteria shall not include.
Regulation 6 contains a revocation and transitional provision.
These Regulations revoke the Primary Schools (Admissions Criteria) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991, but those Regulations continue to apply in relation to admissions to grant-aided primary schools in the 1997/98 school year