(1)In section 509AB of the Education Act 1996 (provision about transport policy statements for persons of sixth form age in England), after subsection (7) insert—
“(7A)In preparing and publishing a statement under section 509AA, a local education authority must have regard (among other things) to the need to—
(a)include in the statement sufficient information about the matters that the statement must specify, and
(b)publish the statement in time,
to enable persons who will be of sixth form age when the statement has effect and their parents to take reasonable account of those matters when choosing between different establishments at which education or training is provided.”
(2)In section 509AA(10) of that Act (time by which transport policy statements for persons of sixth form age in England must be published) for “by substituting a different date for 31st May” substitute “to change the time by which the statement must be published”.