The Education (Proposals for Grammar Schools to cease to have Selective Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999

Circumstances in which proposals will be of no effect

4.  For the purposes of section 109(3)(b) of the Act (which provides that in any prescribed circumstances following the making of a request for a ballot to be held under section 105 of the Act relevant proposals under section 28 of the Act shall be of no effect) the circumstances are–

(a) that after the proposals are published and before a decision is taken under paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Act as to whether they should be approved, the designated body notifies the school organisation committee under regulation 10(2)(e) of the Ballot Regulations that a petition which has been received relating to the grammar school in question is a valid petition; or

(b) that at the time when the proposals are published the designated body has notified the school organisation committee under regulation 10(2)(e) of the Ballot Regulations that a petition which has been received relating to the grammar school in question is a valid petition but the ballot result date for the ballot arising from that petition has not occurred.