8.—(1) A local authority must publish the information in Schedule 3 in accordance with paragraph (2) and regulation 9.
(2) Such information must be published during the offer year and, except in so far as it relates exclusively to primary education, or special educational provision, or provision to which section 19 of EA 1996(1) applies (exceptional provision of education in pupil referral units or elsewhere), must be published no later than six weeks before the date up to which parents may express a preference for a school in respect of the admission year.
(3) Where changes in respect of any of the matters required to be published under this regulation have been decided upon by the local authority but not yet implemented, the local authority must also publish information about those changes.
Section 19 is amended by section 47 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Education Act 1997, the Education Act 1996 (Amendment of Section 19) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1507), and section 101 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.