These Regulations make provisions where proposals are published under section 28 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 by the governing body of a grammar school to end selective admission arrangements.

Regulation 3 modifies Schedule 6 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to take account of the fact that the proposals can only be published by a governing body and not by local education authority.

Regulation 4 provides that such proposals will be of no effect if a valid petition requesting a ballot to determine whether a grammar school should retain selective admission arrangements is received after the proposals are published and before they are decided or if a valid petition has been received when the proposals are published but the ballot result date has not yet occurred.

Regulation 5 makes provisions for disregarding, for the purposes of the Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998, a school where such proposals fall to be implemented and regulation 6 makes a consequential amendment to the Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998.