Section 29 Persons eligible to vote in ballot.C1

England and Wales

(1)

For the purposes of this Chapter, a person is eligible to vote in a ballot held in respect of a school in accordance with section 28 of this Act if he is a registered parent of a registered pupil at the school.

(2)

In subsection (1) above, “registered” means shown in the register kept under section 80 of the M1Education Act 1944 as that register has effect on the date immediately following the end of the period of fourteen days beginning with the date on which the relevant resolution or request was passed or received by the governing body.

(3)

In subsection (2) above, “the relevant resolution or request” means the resolution under section 25, or request under section 26, of this Act by reference to which the ballot is required to be held (or, where the ballot is a second ballot held by virtue of section 30 of this Act, by reference to which the first ballot was required to be held).

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1944 c. 31.

Modifications

C1

Ss. 25-31 applied (with modifications) (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/653, reg. 4(3)(4)

S. 29 applied (with modifications) (1.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1041, reg. 31(9)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(2)(3), 583(2), Sch. 38 Pt. I (with savings in ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39); Sch. 13 paras. 6, 7 as saved continued (1.9.1999) by S.I. 1999/2267, reg. 2(2); and s. 154(4) expressed to be amended (11.9.1998) by 1998 c. 18, ss. 54(1), 55(2), Sch. 3 para. 25 (which amendment fell (1.4.1999) by reason of the repeal of the said Sch. 3 para. 25 by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(3), Sch. 31; S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(1), Sch. 1)

Notes on Chapter II

Modifications

C1: Pt. II Chapter II (ss. 23-37) modified (1.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1041, reg. 17(2)(a)