{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-17/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-17/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if appeal arrangements have been made in relation to admissions decisions.\n(2) A claim that a responsible body has, because of a person's disability, contravened Chapter 1 of Part 6 in respect of an admissions decision must be made under the appeal arrangements.\n(3) The body hearing the claim has the powers it has in relation to an appeal under the appeal arrangements.\n(4) Appeal arrangements are arrangements under—\n(a) section 94 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, or\n(b) Academy arrangements (as defined in section 1 of the Academies Act 2010) between the responsible body for an Academy and the Secretary of State,\nenabling an appeal to be made by the person's parent against the decision.\n(5) An admissions decision is—\n(a) a decision of a kind mentioned in section 94(1) or (2) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n(b) a decision as to the admission of a person to an Academy school or an alternative provision Academy taken by the responsible body or on its behalf.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 13(4)(b) substituted (1.2.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), s. 65, Sch. 15 para. 2; S.I. 2012/84, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 17 para. 13(5)(b) substituted (1.4.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), s. 54(1), Sch. 13 para. 20(4); S.I. 2012/924, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 13 wholly in force; Sch. 17 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 216; Sch. 17 Pt. 4 in force at 1.10.2010 by S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(1)(9)(k)(iii) (with art. 15, and subject to transitional provision in art. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/17/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:11.189587+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."
}