The Education (Determination of Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999

Matters to which consultation is to relate

6.—(1) Consultation under section 89(2) shall relate to all of the arrangements (including the whole admissions policy) which the admission authority propose to determine as the admission arrangements for the school for the particular school year, except any exempt arrangements.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), admission arrangements are exempt to the extent (if any) that–

(a) (in the case of a grammar school) they make provision that the school should retain selective admission arrangements as defined by section 104(4) or that the school should cease to have such arrangements in accordance with section 108 or section 109;

(b) section 89 is excluded by section 103(1) and (2) from applying to their determination (making or abandonment of provision for selection which constitutes a prescribed alteration for the purposes of section 28);

(c) (except where subparagraph (b) applies) they make provision of a kind which would, when first made at a school which previously had no such provision, effect a prescribed alteration for the purposes of section 28.

(3) In relation to any time before the coming into force of section 28, the following subparagraph shall have effect in place of paragraph (2)(b) and (c):

“(b) they make provision of a kind which would, when first made at a school which previously had no such provision, effect a significant change of character of the school for the purposes of section 35(1), 41(2), 259(1) or 260(2) of the Education Act 1996(1).”.

(1)

1996 c. 57; see also S.I. 1998/2230 which modifies section 101(3) and (4) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 in relation to any time before section 28 of that Act comes into force.