{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-england-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-england-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1801",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Organisation Proposals) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-england-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Education (School Organisation Proposals) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "In regulation 10C—\n(a) in paragraph (1) for “popular school but not a grammar school” substitute—\n“(a) a secondary school which is not a grammar school; or\n(b) a popular primary school.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) , after “2” add “,3,” and for “or 12” substitute “,12 or 13”;\n(c) for sub-paragraph (4)(b) substitute the following—\n“(b) a primary school is a “popular primary school” if the number of first preferences of parents for places at the school exceeds the admission number for the relevant age group in the current school year by more than 10%;”;\n(d) for sub-paragraph 4(c) substitute the following—\n“(c) “first preferences” for a school are applications made during the normal admissions round which are ranked by parents on an area’s common application form as their first preference of school; and”;\n(e) for sub-paragraph 4(d) substitute the following—\n“(d) admission number” means the number of pupils in any relevant age group as determined by the admission authority in accordance with sections 89 and 89A of the Act.”;\n(f) omit sub-paragraph 4(e);\n(g) after paragraph (4) insert the following—\n“(5) The relevant school organisation committee shall inform—\n(a) the representative or representatives of the governing body, who attend a school organisation committee meeting pursuant to regulation 7A, at the start of the meeting; or\n(b) where there are no representatives, the governing body at the time of notification pursuant to regulation 12,\nof their entitlement under paragraph 3(6C) of Schedule 6.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1801/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:56:38.840315+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}