Applications for in-area schools
3.—(1) This paragraph specifies provisions to be made in a qualifying scheme about applications made for a school in the area of the local authority.
(2) The scheme must require the local authority—
(a)where the application is for a school for which the governing body are the admission authority, to forward details of the application, together with any supporting information provided by the parent, to the governing body or the body with whom the governing body has made arrangements under paragraph 5(b) (except where that body is the authority);
(b)where the application is for a school for which the local authority are the admission authority, to determine by reference to the school’s admissions criteria the order of priority in which the application for the school is ranked;
(c)in any case where it appears to the local authority, having regard to—
(i)any determination made in accordance with paragraph (b), and
(ii)any information sent to them in accordance with paragraph 5(c),
that a child in their area is eligible to be granted admission to more than one school, or is not eligible to be offered admission to any school, to determine in accordance with the provisions of the scheme whether the child is to be granted or refused admission to a school in their area;
(d)in any case where the local authority determine in accordance with paragraph (c) that a child is to be granted or refused admission to a school in their area for which they are not the admission authority, to notify the school’s governing body of their determination;
(e)except where paragraph (f) applies, to send any determination granting or refusing admission to a school to the parent (such determination being sent on behalf of a school’s governing body in any case where the local authority are not the admission authority for the school); and
(f)with regard to any application relating to a child living in a different local authority’s area, to notify that local authority of their determination.