Regulation 2 Amendment of Education (Determination of Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999

The Education (Determination of Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999^f1 are amended as follows.

After regulation 8 insert—

“Publication by education authority

8A.

No later than 1st May in the determination year, an education authority shall publish the following information in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the education authority, namely—

(a)

the extent to which admission arrangements have been determined for maintained schools in the area of the education authority;

(b)

the fact that copies of the determined admission arrangements are available for inspection at the offices of the education authority and at such other places and by such other means as the education authority considers appropriate;

(c)

the fact that a person within regulation 8(c) of The School Admissions (Alteration and Variation of, and Objections to, Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007^f2 is able to refer an objection to the adjudicator under regulation 9(1)(c) of those Regulations;

(d)

the address to which such objection should be referred;

(e)

the date by which it must be referred; and

(f)

the fact that further information about the determined arrangements and the ability of a parent to object may be obtained from the education authority including the address and telephone number for such contact.”.