# The Education (Schools Conducted by Education Associations) (Initial Articles of Government) Regulations 1994, Paragraph 7: Admissions: arrangements for admission of pupils to the School


(1) The Education Association shall determine, and may from time to time revise, the arrangements for the admission of pupils to the School in any school year.
(2) The arrangements for the admission of pupils to the School (whether as initially determined or as revised by the Education Association) shall not have effect unless they have been approved by the Secretary of State.
(3) The arrangements for the admission of pupils to the School shall include the policy to be followed in determining applications for admission (“admissions policy”) and, where the school is not a special school,—
(a) the number of pupils intended to be admitted to the School in any school year in each relevant age group;
(b) the arrangements which are to apply with respect to the making of applications for admission to the School;
(c) any arrangements which may be adopted by the Education Association, with the approval of the Secretary of State, for preserving the particular religious character of the School; and
(d) where pupils are to be selected for admission to the School wholly or partly on the basis of ability or aptitude, the arrangements made for that purpose.
(4) Where the School is not a special school, the admissions policy, for the purposes of paragraph (3) above, shall include the criteria to be applied in deciding admissions where the number of applications for admission of pupils in a relevant age group in any school year which do not fall to be rejected in accordance with Article 8(1)(a) below is greater than the number of pupils intended to be admitted in that age group in that year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2849/schedule/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-conducted-by-education-associations-initial-articles-of-government-regulations-1994/schedule/paragraph-7
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