The Education (Co-ordination of School Admission Arrangements and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024

This Statutory Instrument has been printed in substitution of the SI of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 698 (W. 96)

Education, Wales

The Education (Co-ordination of School Admission Arrangements and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024

Made

24 May 2024

Laid before Senedd Cymru

29 May 2024

Coming into force

28 June 2024

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 89B(1), (4) and (5)(1), 89C(1), (2), (3), (4) and (5)(2), 92(3), 94(5) and (5A)(4), 95(3) and (3A)(5) and 138(7)(6) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(7), and now vested in them(8), make the following Regulations.

(1)

1998 c. 31; section 89B was inserted by the Education Act 2002 (c. 32), section 48 and amended by the Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), Schedule 1, paragraphs 53, 59(1), (2), (3)(a) and (b), (4)(a) and (b), (5)(a) to (c), (6)(a) and (b) and (7) and S.I. 2010/1158.

(2)

Section 89C was inserted by the Education Act 2002, section 48 and amended by the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), section 43(3)(a) and (b), the Education and Skills Act 2008, Schedule 1, paragraphs 53, 60(1), (3)(a) and (b), (4) and (5), the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), Schedule 5, paragraph 4(1) and (5) and S.I. 2010/1158; there are other amendments but none are relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

Section 92 was substituted by the Education Act 2002, Schedule 4, paragraph 7 and amended by S.I. 2010/1158.

(4)

Subsection (5) of section 94 was substituted, and subsection (5A) was inserted into section 94, by the Education Act 2002, section 50 and subsection (5A) was amended by the Education and Skills Act 2008, section 152(1) and (7).

(5)

Subsection (3) of section 95 was substituted, and subsection (3A) was inserted into section 95, by the Education Act 2002, Schedule 4, paragraph 9 and subsection (3A) was amended by S.I. 2010/1158.

(6)

Subsection (7) was amended by the Education and Inspections Act 2006, Schedule 17, paragraph 3(1) and (4).

(7)

See section 142(1) of the 1998 Act for the definition of “the Assembly” and see section 90ZA of the 1998 Act for the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(8)

The functions of the Secretary of State under these sections of the Education Act 1996 and the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and then to the Welsh Ministers by the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), Schedule 11, paragraph 30.