In these Regulations —

• “the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;

• “relevant looked after child” means a child who is looked after by a local authority in accordance with section 22 of the Children Act 19892 at the time an application for his admission to a school is made, and who the local authority has confirmed will still be looked after at the time when he is admitted to the school;

• “oversubscription criteria” means the criteria to be used to allocate places at a school if the admission authority receives more applications than there are places available.

Any reference in these Regulations to an admission authority for a school giving priority in its oversubscription criteria to a relevant looked after child is a reference to the authority giving priority to such a child when determining its admission arrangements before the beginning of each school year in accordance with section 89(1) of the 1998 Act.