The Education (Admission of Looked After Children) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

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

• “code for school admissions” (“y cod ar gyfer derbyn i ysgolion”) means the code issued by the Welsh Ministers under section 84 of the 1998 Act;

• “community school” (“ysgol gymunedol”) is to be interpreted in accordance with the 1998 Act;

• “outside the normal admission round” (“y tu allan i'r cylch derbyn arferol”) is to be interpreted in accordance with regulations 2, 3 and 4 of the Education (Infant Class Sizes) (Wales) Regulations 1998(1);

• “oversubscription criteria” (“meini prawf gordanysgrifio”) means the criteria to be used to allocate places at a school if the admission authority receives more applications than there are places available;

• “relevant looked after child”(“plentyn perthnasol sy'n derbyn gofal”) means a child who is looked after by a Welsh local authority in accordance with section 22 of the Children Act 1989 at the time of application for his or her admission to a school is made, and who the local authority has confirmed will be looked after at the time when he or she is admitted to the school;

• “voluntary controlled school” (“ysgol wirfoddol a reolir”) is to be interpreted in accordance with the 1998 Act.

(2) 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.

(1)

S.I. 1998/1943.