The Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Regulations 2012

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15.—(1) For the purposes of their consideration of placing requests, an authority must, as respects each school year commencing with school year 2013/14, place in a newspaper circulating at least weekly in their area an advertisement stating the matters specified in paragraph (4).

(2) An advertisement relating to the consideration of placing requests made in respect of pupils due to commence attendance at school in a school year must be placed not later than 6 months before each school commencement date fixed by an authority for that school year.

(3) An advertisement relating to the consideration of placing requests made in respect of pupils transferring from one stage of school education to another stage in a school year must be placed not later than 6 months before each transfer date fixed by an authority for that school year.

(4) The matters to be stated in an advertisement are—

(a) a date, being a date not less than 4 weeks after the date on which the advertisement first appears, by which an authority wish to receive placing requests with respect to their schools in relation to the commencement date or transfer date stated in the advertisement;

(b) one or more addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses to which a parent may apply for information relating to those schools and the authority’s placing arrangements;

(c) that information about those schools and those placing arrangements is available for reference purposes as specified in the advertisement;

(d) that school information for a school is available at the school; and

(e) such other information as the authority think fit.

(5) In this regulation “transfer date” means a date fixed by an authority as a date upon which the transfer of pupils from one stage of school education and their admission to a subsequent stage of school education will take place for a school year.