Education Act 1996

Admission arrangements for grant-maintained schools E+W

425 Admission arrangements and information about them. E+W

Paragraph 5 of Schedule 23 has effect—

(a) for making the governing body of a grant-maintained school responsible for determining the arrangements for admitting pupils to the school; and

(b) for requiring the governing body of such a school to publish particulars of such arrangements and of the procedures applicable in relation to the admission of pupils to the school.

Prospective

[425A F1 Restrictions on admissions to grant-maintained schools. E+W

Schedule 33B to this Act, which provides for restrictions on admissions to grant-maintained schools in connection with—

(a) home-school partnership documents,

(b) partially-selective schools, and

(c) persons permanently excluded from two or more schools,

shall have effect.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 425A inserted (prosp.) by 1997 c. 44, ss. 14(1), 58(3) (with ss. 57(3)).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 425A modified (1.9.1998)(temp.) by S.I. 1998/1948, reg. 3, Sch. para.3.

[F2 425B (1) An application for the admission of a child to a grant-maintained school may be refused on the grounds that his admission would prejudice the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources at the school.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) prejudice of the kind referred to in that provision may arise by reason of any qualifying measures.

(3) No prejudice shall, however, be taken to arise from the admission of a child to the school if, were he to be admitted to the school, the number of pupils within the relevant age group to which he would be admitted in the school year in which he would be admitted would not exceed the number of pupils intended to be admitted to the school in that age group in that year.]

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 425B inserted (1.9.1998) by S.I. 1998/1948, reg. 3, Sch. para. 3