Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke and replace the Secondary Schools (Admissions Criteria) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995.

Article 16 of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 requires the Board of Governors of each grant-aided school to draw up the criteria to be applied in selecting pupils for admission to the school. It also enables the Department to make Regulations providing for the criteria to include, or not to include, such matter or matters of such description as are specified.

These Regulations specify matters to be included, and matters not to be included, in the criteria for admission to grant-aided secondary schools in the 1998/99 and subsequent school years.

Regulation 4 specifies matters which the criteria shall include.

Regulation 5 specifies matters which the criteria shall not include.

Regulation 6 makes special provision about matters which grammar schools having a boarding department may include in their criteria.

These Regulations do not apply to admissions to grant-aided secondary schools in the 1997/98 school year.