SCHEDULE 4Admission arrangements
Parental preferences
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(1)
Section 86 of the 1998 Act (parental preferences) is amended as follows.
F1(2)
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(3)
“(2A)
Arrangements made under subsection (1) may allow the parent of a child to express preferences for more than one school; but nothing in this section requires the admission authority for a maintained school for which a child’s parent has expressed a preference to offer the child admission to the school if, in accordance with a scheme adopted or made by virtue of section 89B, the child is offered admission to a different school for which the parent has also expressed a preference.”
(4)
In subsection (3)—
(a)
at the end of paragraph (a) there is inserted “
or
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, and
(b)
paragraph (b) is omitted.
F2(5)
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(6)
Subsection (6) shall cease to have effect.
F3(7)
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(8)
In subsection (9), for “provide for all pupils admitted to the school” there is substituted “
, or arrangements such as are mentioned in subsection (3B), provide for all pupils selected under the arrangements
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