The Education (Information on School Examination Results) (England) Regulations 1991

Amendment of the Education (School Information) Regulations 1981

3.  The Education (School Information) Regulations 1981(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) at the beginning of paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 4 thereshall be added the words“Subject to regulation 4A”;

(b) after regulation 4 there shall be added the followingregulation—

“4A.— (1) This regulation applies where the information relating to prescribedpublic examinations results referred to in paragraph 15(1)(b) ofSchedule 2 (“the public examinations results information”) which is published in accordance with subsection (5) of section 8of the Act of 1980 (read with regulations 4 and 6) does not relate toexaminations held in the school year immediately preceding the schoolyear in which the information is published (“the previous school year”).

(2) Where this regulation applies the persons referred to in paragraph(1) of regulation 4 shall, as soon as practicable after the publicexaminations results information for the previous school year is madeavailable to them, publish that information as a supplement to theschool prospectus as provided in regulation 6 (disregarding paragraph(2) thereof).”;

(c) in paragraph (1) of regulation 6 for the words“regulation 4” there shall be substituted the words“regulations 4 and 4A”;

(d) for paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted thefollowing paragraph—

“15.— (1) In the case of a school in England (including a special school)providing education for pupils in year groups 11 or 13, the followinginformation relating to public examinations, namely—

(a) the policy in respect of entering such pupils for publicexaminations; and

(b) in relation to all prescribed public examinations held in therelevant school year the particulars made available to the governingbody by the head teacher pursuant to regulation 4 of the Education(Information on School Examination Results) (England) Regulations 1991.

(2) In this paragraph—

(a) references to year groups 11 and 13 are references to the yeargroups at a school in which the majority of pupils attain the ages ofsixteen and eighteen respectively during the school year;

(b) references to the relevant school year are to the last school yearfor which the particulars referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) of thisparagraph were available at the date specified for the purposes ofregulation 8(2); and

(c) “prescribed public examinations” means public examinations which are for the time being prescribedby regulations made under section 106 of the Education Reform Act 1988.”

(1)

S.I. 1981/630, to which there are relevant amendments inS.I. 1988/1023 and 1989/398.