{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-103.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/31",
  "legislation_title": "School Standards and Framework Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998",
  "path": "section/103",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Permitted selection: introduction, variation or abandonment of provision for such selection.",
  "text": "(1) In connection with the determination of a maintained school’s admission arrangements for a particular school year, sections 88C to 88K or, as the case may be, 89 and 90 shall, except to the specified extent, apply in relation to the making or abandonment by those arrangements of provision for any permitted form of selection by ability or aptitude as they apply in relation to the making or abandonment by those arrangements of provision for other matters.\n(2) In subsection (1) “the specified extent” means the extent to which those admission arrangements would effect an alteration in the provision made by the school’s admission arrangements as respects any such form of selection (whether by introducing, varying or abandoning any such form of selection) which constitutes—\n(a) in relation to England, a prescribed alteration for the purposes of section 18 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, and\n(b) in relation to Wales, a regulated alteration within the meaning of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013.\n(3) Any admission arrangements to which section 101(1) or (1A) applies (whether authorised by section 100 or section 101) may be varied if (and only if) the arrangements as varied are designed to secure the objectives mentioned in section 101(1)(a) and (b), section 101(1A)(a)(i) and (b), section 101(1A)(a)(ii) and (b) or section 101(1A)(a)(iii) and (b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(1) inserted (2.12.2008) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(4), Sch. 1 para. 69; S.I. 2008/3077, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(2) substituted (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), ss. 54(3)(a), 188(3); S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(2)(b) substituted (W.) (1.10.2013) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), s. 100(4), Sch. 5 para. 19(10); S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(3) substituted (8.1.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), ss. 54(3)(b)(i), 188(3); S.I. 2006/3400, art. 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 103(3) substituted (8.1.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), ss. 54(3)(b)(ii), 188(3); S.I. 2006/3400, art. 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 103 modified (temp.) (22.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/1064, reg.8."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 103(3) applied (with modifications) (18.10.1999) by S.I. 1999/2666, reg. 8, Sch. paras. 1(c), 2-8.S. 103(3) applied (with modifications) (1.9.1999) by S.I. 1999/2800, reg. 7, Sch. paras. 1, 2-8."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 103(3) applied (with modifications) (E.) (8.5.2003) by The New School (Admissions) (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1041), regs. 1(1), 9, Sch. para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 103(3) applied (with modifications) (1.2.2006) by The New School (Admissions) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/175), regs. 1(1), 9, Sch. (with reg. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 103 wholly in force at 1.4.1999; s. 103 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 145(3); S. 103(3) in force at 1.10.1998 by S.I. 1998/2212, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I; s. 103 in force at 1.4.1999 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 3-6, Sch. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:40.566698+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."
}