{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-admissions-common-offer-date-wales-regulations-2013/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-admissions-common-offer-date-wales-regulations-2013/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2013/1144",
  "legislation_title": "The School Admissions (Common Offer Date) (Wales) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-admissions-common-offer-date-wales-regulations-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n\"the SSFA 1998\" (\"DSFfY 1998\") means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n\"admission year\" (\"blwyddyn dderbyn\") in relation to the admission of pupils to a relevant age group at schools during a particular academic year means that academic year;\n\"composite prospectus\" (\"prosbectws cyfansawdd\") means the composite prospectus that a local authority is required to publish under regulation 4 of the School Information (Wales) Regulations 2011 containing the information set out in Schedule 2 to those regulations and in the School Admissions Code.\n\"offer date\" (\"dyddiad cynnig\") means the date prescribed by regulations 3 and 4 when parents receive notice of the place their child has been allocated at a primary or secondary school;\n\"offer year\" (\"blwyddyn gynnig\") means the academic year immediately preceding the admission year;\n\"School Admissions Code\" (\"Cod Derbyniadau Ysgol\") means any code for school admissions under section 84 of the SSFA 1998;\n\"working day\" (\"diwrnod gwaith\") means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations an application is made in the course of a normal admissions round if —\n(a) it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group; and\n(b) it is not a late application or an in-year application.\n(3) For the purpose of these Regulations an application is a late application if—\n(a) it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group;\n(b) it is submitted before the first day of the admission year;\n(c) it is submitted after the date set out in the composite prospectus for the receipt of applications for admission to maintained schools; and\n(d) a decision relating to the application is not made by an admission authority on or before the offer date.\n(4) For the purposes of these Regulations an application is an in-year application if—\n(a) it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group and is submitted on or after the first day of the admission year; or\n(b) it is for the admission of a child to an age group other than a relevant age group.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 142(1) of the SSFA 1998 (c. 31) for the definition of \"relevant age group\"."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2011/1944 (W.122)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The composite prospectus sets out admission arrangements for a local authority area, including the date for the receipt of applications for admission."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 84 was amended by section 40 of, and Part 6 of Schedule 18 to, the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c.40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/1144/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:42:53.660438+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."
}