SCHEDULES

F1Schedule 33B

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F2Restriction of right to refuse admission to partially-selective school

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F2

Sch. 33B inserted (1.9.1997 so far as relating to paras. 3 and 4) by 1997 c. 44, ss. 14(2), 58(3), Sch. 3 (with s. 57(3)); S.I. 1997/1468, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt.II

F33

1

An application for the admission of a child to a grant-maintained school may not be refused on the grounds that his admission would be incompatible with the school’s selective admission arrangements unless those arrangements—

a

are wholly based on selection by reference to ability or aptitude, and

b

are so based with a view to admitting only pupils with high ability or with aptitude.

2

For the purposes of this paragraph a school has selective admission arrangements if the arrangements for the admission of pupils to the school are to any extent based on selection by reference to ability or aptitude.