Regulation 28 Provision for notification of decisions

(1)

The local education authority must notify the following persons of each decision under regulation 27, together with their reasons—

(a)

the governing body;

(b)

the trustees of the school (if any);

(c)

the Secretary of State;

(d)

where proposals include provision for 14-16 education or sixth form education, the Learning Skills Council for England;

(e)

the Diocesan Board of Education for any diocese of the Church of England any part of which is comprised in the area of the local education authority;

(f)

the bishop of any diocese of the Roman Catholic Church any part of which is comprised in the area of the authority;

(g)

where the proposals relate to a special school,

(i)

the relevant Primary Care Trust , for the area in which the school is situated, and

(ii)

any NHS trust or NHS foundation trust responsible for a hospital or other provision in the area in which the school is situated;

(h)

subject to paragraph (3), each objector to the proposals; and

(i)

the adjudicator.

(2)

The adjudicator must notify the persons referred to in sub-paragraphs (1) (a) to (h) and the local education authority of each decision together with his reasons.

(3)

Where objections to a proposal take the form of a petition (that is to say a document containing the text of one objection signed by more than one objector) the local education authority or the adjudicator as the case may be, may comply with paragraph 1 (h) by—

(a)

notifying the person (if any) who appears to them to have arranged for the petition to be sent to the local education authority; or

(b)

if there is no such person, notifying the objector whose name first appears on the petition.

(4)

Where proposals have been sent to the authority or adjudicator as the case may be, they or he must notify the proposers or the local education authority, as the case may be, if any further proposals sent to them or him appear to them or him to be related.