{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-89A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-89A.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/89A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "89A",
  "heading": "Determination of admission numbers",
  "text": "(1) A determination under section 89 by the admission authority for a maintained school in Wales of the admission arrangements which are to apply for a school year shall include a determination of the number of pupils in each relevant age group that it is intended to admit to the school in that year.\n(2) Such a determination under section 89 may also, if the school is one at which boarding accommodation is provided for pupils, include—\n(a) a determination of the number of pupils in each relevant age group that it is intended to admit to the school in that year as boarders, and\n(b) a determination of the number of pupils in each relevant age group that it is intended to admit to the school in that year otherwise than as boarders.\n(3) Regulations may make provision about the making of any determination required by subsection (1), and may in particular require the admission authority for a maintained school in Wales to have regard, in making any such determination, to—\n(a) any prescribed method of calculation, and\n(b) any other prescribed matter.\n(4) References in this section to the determination of any number include references to the determination of zero as that number.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 89A inserted (1.10.2002 for E., 1.2.2006 for W.) by Education Act 2002 (c. 32), ss. 47(2), 216(4) (with ss. 210(8), 214(4) and S.I. 2006/173, reg. 6); S.I. 2002/2439, art. 3 (with art. 4, Sch. paras. 3, 5) (which transitional provisions in Sch. para. 4 are substituted (6.3.2003) by S.I. 2003/606, art. 2 and (4.12.2003) by S.I. 2003/2992, art. 3); S.I. 2006/172, art. 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 89A(1) inserted (2.12.2008) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(4), Sch. 1 para. 58(2); S.I. 2008/3077, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 89A(3) inserted (2.12.2008) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(4), Sch. 1 para. 58(3); S.I. 2008/3077, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/89A",
    "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."
}