Education Act 1996

421 Review of standard numbers. E+W

(1) The admission authority for a county or voluntary school shall keep under review any standard numbers applying to the school under sections 417 to 420, having regard to any change in the school’s capacity to accommodate pupils as compared with its capacity at the beginning of the school year in which those standard numbers first applied (whether by virtue of section 15 of the M1 Education Act 1980, section 27 of the M2 Education Reform Act 1988 or sections 417 to 420 above).

(2) For the purposes of this section a school’s capacity to accommodate pupils is changed if—

(a) as a result of changes in the availability or use of accommodation at the school, there is any change in the amount of accommodation available for use by pupils at the school; or

(b) as a result of changes in the requirements applicable to the school under regulations made under section 542 there is any change in the number of pupils for whom accommodation may lawfully be provided at the school;

and a school’s capacity to accommodate pupils is reduced if the result of the changes is, in a case within paragraph (a), less accommodation or, in a case within paragraph (b), a reduction in the number there mentioned.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 421 modified (1.9.1998)(temp.) by S.I. 1998/1948, reg. 3, Sch. para.2.

Marginal Citations

M1 1980 c. 20.

M2 1988 c. 40.