The Education (Allocation of Grant-maintained and Grant-maintained Special Schools to New Categories) Regulations 1998

Ballots of parents

8.—(1) Where a petition meets the requirements of regulation 6, a ballot of parents shall be held in accordance with regulations 9 and 10 on the question of the category to which the school should be allocated in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Act and regulation 17.

(2) Within five school days following the date of receipt of a petition which meets the requirements of regulation 6, the governing body of the school shall inform the persons referred to in paragraph (3) below of the preferred category for the school stated in the petition and that a ballot of parents is required to be held on the question of the category to which the school should be allocated in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Act and regulation 17.

(3) The persons referred to in paragraph (2) are—

(a) the local education authority for the area in which the school is situated;

(b) in the case of a Church school, the appropriate diocesan authority;

(c) any person holding land on trust for the purposes of the school; and

(d) the ballot administration company.

(4) Within the same period as is referred to in paragraph (2), the governing body of the school shall notify the ballot administration company of both the governing body’s preliminary decision and the school’s indicative allocation.