Paragraph 5 Fixing admission numbers

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.4, para.2 amended by School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Amendment of Commencement Orders) 1999 art.2(2)
Sch.4, para.11 rev.in pt. by School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Amendment of Commencement Orders) 1999 art.2(3)
Sch.4, para.12 added by School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Amendment of Commencement Orders) 1999 art.2(4)

(1)

Section 93 of the 1998 Act shall not apply in relation to the fixing of a school’s admission number for any school year earlier than 2000/2001.

(2)

Section 416(1) and (2) of the 1996 Act shall continue to have effect in relation to the fixing of an admission number for a county or voluntary school for 1999/2000 and earlier school years.

(3)

This sub-paragraph applies where before 1st September 1999–

(a)

a proposal is made to the admission authority for a county or voluntary school under section 416(3) of the 1996 Act; and

(b)

either–

(i)

the time limit for the admission authority to give notice under section 416(6) rejecting that proposal has not expired, or

(ii)

the admission authority have given such a notice within that time limit, but the authority making the proposal have not made an application to the Secretary of State as mentioned in section 416(7) (and the time limit for doing so has not expired).

(4)

Where sub-paragraph (3) applies, any such proposal shall be treated as having been made under section 93(4) of the 1998 Act; and accordingly subsections (6) and (7) of that section shall have effect in relation to that proposal.

(5)

This paragraph shall have effect notwithstanding the repeal of section 416 of the 1998 Act and the coming into force of section 93 of the 1998 Act.