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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-admissions-admission-arrangements-england-regulations-2008/regulation-12/enacted",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3089",
  "legislation_title": "The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2008 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-admissions-admission-arrangements-england-regulations-2008/enacted",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Persons who must be consulted",
  "text": "(1) This regulation prescribes for the purposes of section 88C(2) the persons who must be consulted about proposed admission arrangements for a school.\n(2) Subject to regulation 15 the following persons must be consulted—\n(a) whichever of the governing body and the local authority are not the admission authority;\n(b) the admission authorities for all other schools in the relevant area;\n(c) the governing bodies for all community and voluntary controlled schools in the relevant area (so far as not falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (b));\n(d) where the admission authority for the school is the local authority, any neighbouring local authority;\n(e) where the admission authority for the school is the governing body, any relevant local authority (so far as not required by sub-paragraph (a) or (b));\n(f) the admission forum established by the local authority;\n(g) relevant parents;\n(h) such other persons in the relevant area or the additional radial area who appear to the admission authority to have an interest in the proposed admission arrangements; and\n(i) in the case of a foundation or voluntary school which is designated as having a religious character by an order under section 69(3), the body or person representing the religion or religious denomination in question.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2)(b) and (c) in the case of a primary school the admission authority need only consult the admission authorities for other schools in the relevant area which are primary schools.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(d) a local authority is “neighbouring”, in relation to another local authority, if the areas of the two authorities adjoin to any extent.\n(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(e) a local authority is “relevant” if any part of its area falls within the relevant area for consultation or the additional radial area.\n(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(g) “relevant parents” means all parents who fall within regulation 26.\n(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(i)—\n(a) the bodies or persons listed in the second column of the Table must be consulted about proposed admission arrangements for schools designated as having the religion or religious denomination listed in the first column of the Table, and\n(b) where a school is designated as having more than one religion or religious denomination, the body or person listed in the second column of the Table for each of the religions or religious denominations must be consulted about the proposed admission arrangements for that school.\nBodies and persons to be consulted in relation to the admission arrangements of schools with a religious character\nReligion or religious denomination\nBody or person to be consulted\nChurch of England\nThe appropriate diocesan authority\nJewish\nThe appropriate rabbinic authority for the school listed in Schedule 2\nMethodist\nThe Methodist Connexional Education Secretary\nMuslim\nThe Association of Muslim Schools UK\nQuaker\nThe Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)\nRoman Catholic\nThe Diocesan Bishop or the equivalent in canon law for the diocese in which the school is situated\nSeventh-Day Adventist\nThe British Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists\nSikh\nNanaksar Thath Isher Darbar Trust",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3089/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-14T03:35:04.510886+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."
}