The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 1099

Education, England

The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made

29th April 2009

Laid before Parliament

7th May 2009

Coming into force

31st May 2009

The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 88K(4) and 138(7) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1). In accordance with paragraph 24 of Schedule 7 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007(2) the Secretary of State has consulted the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council.

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 31st May 2009.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

Amendments to the School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2008

2.—(1) The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2008(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 31(2) omit “(b) be published in a newspaper circulating in the locality served by the school;”.

(3) Insert a new regulation 31A—

“(1) This regulation prescribes for the purposes of section 88K(4)(c) the manner in which the publication of a report in accordance with regulation 31 must be notified.

(2) A notice must, within 14 days after the date when the adjudicator’s decision was made, be published in a newspaper circulating in the locality served by the school.

(3) The notice must include the following—

(a) the name of the school, the admission arrangements of which are the subject of the adjudicator’s decision; and

(b) details of how a full copy of the report can be obtained.

(4) Access to the report required by paragraph (3)(b) may be effected by the transmission of the report in electronic form, except in any case where there are grounds for believing that the intended recipient is unable to make use of it in that form.”

Sarah McCarthy-Fry

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Children, Schools and Families

29th April 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make a minor amendment to the School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2008.

These Regulations amend regulation 31(2) so as to remove the requirement to publish a copy of the adjudicator’s full determination in the local newspaper. New regulation 31A now provides that a notice of the determination must be published rather than the entire report. This notice must contain details of how a full copy of the report can be obtained.

(1)

1998 c.31. Section 88K was inserted by the Education and Skills Act 2008 (c.32), section 151(1) and (4). See section 142(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 for the definitions of “regulations” and “prescribed”.

(2)

2007 c.15.

(3)

S.I. 2008/3089.