The School Admissions (Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007

Interpretation

3.—(1) In these Regulations—

“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 or, as the case may be, secondary education to be provided for his child in the exercise of the authority’s functions;

“authority” means the local education authority formulating a qualifying scheme in accordance with regulation 4 or, as the case may be, for whose area an imposed scheme has been, or is to be, made;

“the determination year” relating to any academic year means the year preceding the year in which the academic year commences;

“imposed scheme” means a scheme for co-ordinating the arrangements for the admission of pupils to primary schools or, as the case may be, secondary schools made by the Secretary of State under section 89B(2) of the 1998 Act and imposed in accordance with regulation 7;

“qualifying scheme” means a scheme for co-ordinating the arrangements for the admission of pupils to primary schools or, as the case may be, secondary schools in the local education authority’s area formulated by an authority pursuant to section 89B(1)(a) of the 1998 Act and these Regulations;

“qualifying primary scheme” and “qualifying secondary scheme” have the meanings given in regulation 4(1);

“school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school; and

“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1).

(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 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 (or where the governing body are the admission authority for the school and have made arrangements for another body to determine the order of priority in which applications are ranked under paragraph 3(b) of Schedule 2, that body determines 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 8.

(3) Where an application for the admission of a child to a relevant age group at a secondary school is submitted later than the date stipulated by a qualifying scheme (or, as the case may be, an imposed scheme), it shall 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 (or where the governing body are the admission authority for the school and have made arrangements for another body to determine the order of priority in which applications are ranked under paragraph 6(b) of Schedule 3, that body determines 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 prescribed by regulation 9(2).

(1)

1971 c.80.