Paragraph 1
Where proposals are required to be published under regulations 12 to 15, they shall be published by being–
posted at or near the main entrance (or if there is more than one main entrance, all of them) of each of the schools named in the proposals or, in the case of a hospital special school, posted in at least one conspicuous place within the hospital,
posted in at least one conspicuous place within the area or each of the areas served by those schools, and
made available for inspection at all reasonable times at each such school or at any other place within those areas to which members of the public may conveniently have access.
Within the period of 10 days beginning with the first date on which the proposals are published in one or more newspapers circulating in the area or, as the case may be, the areas served by the schools named in the proposals, a notice in respect of the proposals containing such summary of the proposals as the governing bodies of the schools named in the proposals may think appropriate (including, in particular, the information required by sub–paragraph (3) below).
The notice shall–
state–
that proposals for acquisition of grant–maintained status as a group have been published and submitted to the Secretary of State and shall give the names and addresses of the schools which are proposed to form the group, or
that proposals for acquisition of grant–maintained status as an additional member of an existing group have been published and shall give the name and address of that school and the schools in the existing group, or
that proposals for a grant–maintained school as an additional member of an existing group has been published and shall give the name and address of that school and the schools in the existing group, or
that proposals for a new group to be formed out of the schools in two or more existing groups have been published and shall give the names of all those schools, or
that proposals for grant–maintained schools to form a group have been published and shall give the names of those schools,
specify the proposed date of implementation of the proposals,
name any school included in the proposals which is not a grant–maintained school and state that if the proposals are approved in respect of that school it will on that date cease to be maintained by the local education authority,
state that, if the proposals are approved, the schools will on and after that date be conducted by one governing body incorporated under these Regulations and receive annual grants from the funding authority,
give the information required to be specified in the proposals as to the arrangements adopted, or proposed to be adopted if the proposals are approved, in respect of the admission of pupils to the school,
explain the effect of paragraph 5 below.