Regulation 19 Proportion of pupils from publicly maintained schools

Subject to paragraph (3), in selecting pupils to take up assisted places in any school year, a school shall select pupils from publicly maintained schools and from other schools in such proportion as appears to them likely to ensure that at least 60 per cent of the total number of assisted pupils at the school in that school year will be pupils from publicly maintained schools.

Any reference in paragraph (1) to a pupil from a publicly maintained school is a reference to a pupil from—

who, at the time of his selection for an assisted place (or consideration for selection), was attending such a School and has so attended for a continuous period including at least the whole of the previous school year so, however, that where the school is a grant-aided grammar school in Northern Ireland no fees were payable in respect of his attendance.

On application in that behalf made by a particular school the Secretary of State may modify or dispense with the requirement in paragraph (1) as respects a year specified by him but he may attach such conditions as he thinks fit to any such modification or dispensation.