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2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996(1);
“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
“application”, in relation to arrangements made by a local education authority under section 86(1) of the 1998 Act, means a parent’s expression of a preference as to the school at which he wishes primary education to be provided for his child in the exercise of the authority’s functions;
“authority”, in relation to co-ordinated arrangements for admission, means the local education authority formulating a qualifying scheme with a view to securing its adoption by that authority and each governing body who are the admission authority for a primary school in their area or, as the case may be, for whose area an imposed scheme relating to primary schools has been, or is to be, made;
“imposed scheme” means a scheme for co-ordinating the arrangements for the admission of pupils to primary schools made by the Secretary of State under section 89B(2) of the 1998 Act;
“qualifying scheme” means a scheme for co-ordinating the arrangements for the admission of pupils to primary schools in a local education authority’s area formulated by an authority pursuant to section 89B(1)(a) of the 1998 Act and these Regulations;
“school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school;
“the determination year” relating to any academic year means the year preceding the year in which the academic year commences;
“the initial year” means the academic year 2005-06.
(2) Where an application for the admission of a child to a relevant age group at a primary school is submitted later than the date stipulated by a qualifying scheme (or, as the case may be, an imposed scheme), it shall still be considered to have been submitted in the course of a normal admission round if—
(a)the relevant admission authority for the school determine, in accordance with the school’s admission arrangements, the order of priority in which the application is ranked; and
(b)a determination relating to the application is made by an authority on or before the date designated by them in accordance with the provisions of regulation 7.
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