C5Part III School admissions

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Chapter II Selection of pupils

Partial selection

I1C1103 Permitted selection: introduction, variation or abandonment of provision for such selection.

1

In connection with the determination of a maintained school’s admission arrangements for a particular school year, sections F488C to 88K or, as the case may be, 89 and 90 shall, except to the specified extent, apply in relation to the making or abandonment by those arrangements of provision for any permitted form of selection by ability or aptitude as they apply in relation to the making or abandonment by those arrangements of provision for other matters.

2

In subsection (1) “the specified extent” means the extent to which those admission arrangements would effect an alteration in the provision made by the school’s admission arrangements as respects any such form of selection (whether by introducing, varying or abandoning any such form of selection) which F3constitutes—

a

in relation to England, a prescribed alteration for the purposes of section 18 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, and

b

in relation to Wales, a F5regulated alteration within the meaning of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013.

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Any admission arrangements to which F1section 101(1) or (1A) applies (whether authorised by section 100 or section 101) may be varied if (and only if) the arrangements as varied are designed to secure F2the objectives mentioned in section 101(1)(a) and (b), section 101(1A)(a)(i) and (b), section 101(1A)(a)(ii) and (b) or section 101(1A)(a)(iii) and (b).