The Education (Relevant Areas for Consultation on Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999

Review of relevant areas

11.—(1) Each education authority shall review periodically their determination of the relevant area or relevant areas for their local schools in accordance with this regulation.

(2) The authority shall review their first, or as the case may be most recent, determination within the period of two years after the date on which that determination was made.

(3) Where–

(a) a relevant area was redetermined by the adjudicator or the Secretary of State under regulation 9, and

(b) the redetermined relevant area differed from that which had been determined by the education authority,

the education authority may not propose any determination which would change that relevant area unless the proposed determination would be made more than a year after the end of the school year in which they made the determination referred to in subparagraph (b).

(4) Having reviewed their determination, the authority shall prepare and consult on proposals for the relevant area or relevant areas for consultation by the admission authorities for the local schools, in accordance with regulations 5 and 6.

(5) Paragraph (4) does not require the new proposals to propose any change to the relevant area or relevant areas previously determined.

(6) Following consultation, the education authority shall decide either–

(a) that a fresh determination shall be made, in which case regulations 7(1) and (2), 8 and 9 shall apply; or

(b) that no fresh determination shall be made, in which case they shall notify the bodies mentioned in regulation 8 in writing of their decision.

(7) The education authority shall take all steps necessary to ensure that, should it conclude that a fresh determination is to be made, that determination is made no later than two years after the latest time by which their previous determination was required to have been made.

(8) A fresh determination by an education authority under this regulation shall specify, by reference to admission arrangements for a particular school year, the earliest admission arrangements for consultation about which the freshly determined relevant area or relevant areas has or have effect.

(9) Regulation 9 applies to enable a decision under paragraph (6) to be referred to the adjudicator or the Secretary of State where the decision determines, or (where no fresh determination is made) leaves in effect, a cross-border relevant area.