Regulation 5 Amendments to Parts II to V of the principal Regulations

for paragraph (1), there is substituted—

“(1)

Subject to paragraph (4), in selecting pupils who will not be excepted pupils to take up assisted places, a school shall ensure that at least 60 per cent of the total number of assisted pupils at the school, excluding any excepted pupils, will be pupils from publicly maintained schools.”; and

after paragraph (1) there is inserted—

“(1A)

For the purposes of paragraph (1) “excepted pupils” means pupils (whether or not they are assisted pupils) who have not attained the age of seven years by 1st September next following the beginning of the school year in which they first attend the school.”.