The Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998

Implementation of decision that a school should cease to have selective admission arrangements.

17.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of section 108(2) of the Act (which, where it applies, provides that the admission authority for a grammar school to which the ballot related shall secure that their admission arrangements are revised so that the school no longer has selective admission arrangements), the prescribed school year is—

(a) where the ballot result date is on or before 31st December in any school year, the second school year after the ballot result date; and

(b) where the ballot result date is after 31st December in any school year, the third school year after the ballot result date.

(2) Where the Secretary of State has given the notification required by regulation 15(4) but determines not to declare the ballot void, paragraph (1) above shall have effect as if the ballot result date was the date of the notification required to be given under regulation 15(5).