{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/32",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Parental preferences",
  "text": "(1) Section 86 of the 1998 Act (parental preferences) is amended as follows.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) After subsection (2) there is inserted—\n“(2A) Arrangements made under subsection (1) may allow the parent of a child to express preferences for more than one school; but nothing in this section requires the admission authority for a maintained school for which a child’s parent has expressed a preference to offer the child admission to the school if, in accordance with a scheme adopted or made by virtue of section 89B, the child is offered admission to a different school for which the parent has also expressed a preference.”\n(4) In subsection (3)—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (a) there is inserted “ or ”, and\n(b) paragraph (b) is omitted.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Subsection (6) shall cease to have effect.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) In subsection (9), for “provide for all pupils admitted to the school” there is substituted “ , or arrangements such as are mentioned in subsection (3B), provide for all pupils selected under the arrangements ”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3(2) repealed (5.1.2015) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(3)(4), Sch. 2; S.I. 2014/3364, art. 2(aa) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3(5) repealed (5.1.2015) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(3)(4), Sch. 2; S.I. 2014/3364, art. 2(aa) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3(7) repealed (5.1.2015) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(3)(4), Sch. 2; S.I. 2014/3364, art. 2(aa) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3 partly in force; Sch. 4 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 216; Sch. 4 para. 3 in force for E. at 1.10.2002 by S.I. 2002/2439, art. 3 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 4, Sch.) (as amended (4.12.2003) by S.I. 2003/2992, arts. 1, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3(1)-(5) (7)(8) in force at 31.5.2005 for W. by S.I. 2005/1395, art. 4, Sch. (with art. 5(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3(6) in force at 1.2.2006 for W. by S.I. 2006/172, art. 4, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:01.287129+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}