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Nursery education, special schools and children with statementsE+W

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12(1)Section 98 of the 1998 Act (admission for nursery education etc) is amended as follows.

(2)For subsection (2) there is substituted—

(2)The admission of children to a school for nursery education shall be disregarded—

(a)for the purposes of any determination under section 89 of the number of pupils in any relevant age group that it is intended to admit to a primary school in a school year, and

(b)in determining for the purposes of section 89A what is a relevant age group in relation to a primary school.

(3)In subsection (3), after “Chapter” there is inserted “ apart from subsections (4A) and (4B) ”.

(4)After subsection (4) there is inserted—

(4A)The person responsible for admitting, or refusing to admit, children to a maintained school for nursery education shall be the person who (by virtue of section 88(1)) is the admission authority for the school.

(4B)Regulations may make provision as to the person who is to be responsible for admitting, or refusing to admit, children to maintained nursery schools.

(5)In subsection (8) after “this section” there is inserted “ , apart from subsections (4A) and (4B), ”.

(6)For subsection (9) there is substituted—

(9)Such children shall, in addition, be taken into account for the purposes of—

(a)the references in section 86(5), (5B) and (9) to a number of pupils, and

(b)any determination under section 89 of the number of pupils in a relevant age group that it is intended to admit, or to admit either as boarders or otherwise than as boarders, to a school in a school year.

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I1Sch. 4 para. 12 partly in force; Sch. 4 para. 12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 216; Sch. 4 para. 12 in force for E. at 20.1.2003 by S.I. 2002/2952, art. 2 (with savings and transitional provisions in Sch. paras. 2, 3)

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