The Education (Determination of Admission Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Suspension of consultation requirements

7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), this regulation prescribes for the purposes of section 89(2A) the conditions under which a governing body who are the admission authority for a school are not required to undertake the consultation required under section 89(2) in any determination year.

(2) The conditions are that—

(a) the governing body have undertaken the consultation required under section 89(2) in relation to the proposed admission arrangements for the school in the preceding determination year, or if no consultation was required in that year because of this regulation, in the determination year which began two years before the determination year in question; and

(b) the governing body propose to determine the same admission arrangements for the school as those determined in the determination year in respect of which consultation took place, as referred to in sub-paragraph (a); and

(c) no objection was made to the National Assembly under section 90(1) or (2) about the admission arrangements proposed by the governing body in any of the preceding five years.

(3) This regulation does not apply unless, in relation to the determination year in respect of which consultation took place, as referred to in paragraph (2)(a), relating to a qualifying school year, the education authority maintaining the school have provided the National Assembly with the relevant notification.

(4) In this regulation—

“the relevant notification” (“yr hysbysiad perthnasol”) means notification that all the admission authorities in the relevant area have undertaken the consultation required under section 89(2) in relation to their proposed admission arrangements;

“qualifying school year” (“blwyddyn ysgol gymwys”) means the school year 2008-2009 or any subsequent school year.