# Education Act 2002, Paragraph 3: Parental preferences

Extent: E+W

(1) Section 86 of the 1998 Act (parental preferences) is amended as follows.
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(3) After subsection (2) there is inserted—
“(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.”
(4) In subsection (3)—
(a) at the end of paragraph (a) there is inserted “ or ”, and
(b) paragraph (b) is omitted.
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(6) Subsection (6) shall cease to have effect.
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(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 ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/schedule/4/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-3
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