The Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998

Information to be given by the designated body

18.—(1) If—

(a) 10 or more persons jointly notify the designated body in writing that they are considering raising a petition; and

(b) the notification nominates one of those persons as the person to receive information from the designated body,

the designated body shall, as soon as practicable, give that person the information specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1) is—

(a) where the proposed petition is to be a petition for a feeder school ballot—

(i) the names of the feeder schools for the group of grammar schools, or, as the case may be, the stand alone grammar school in the school year in which the notification is made (on the assumption that regulation 23(3) to (5) will not apply during that school year); and

(ii) the transfer age group for the group of grammar schools or stand alone grammar school in question;

(b) the number of parents who would need to sign the petition for it to comply with regulation 7(5) on the assumption —

(i) that the petition is received by the designated body during the same petition period as that in which the notification was made, or where the petition was not received during a petition period or was received on the date referred to in paragraph (5), that the petition is received in the next petition period;

(ii) that regulation 9(3) will not apply in relation to any school in the petition period referred to in paragraph (i) of this sub-paragraph; and

(iii) where the proposed petition is to be a petition for a feeder school ballot, regulation 23(3) to (5) will not apply during that petition period;

(c) the words to be contained in a petition in accordance with regulation 8(2).

(3) Where the designated body have determined, in the light of information obtained under regulation 19, that a school has become a feeder school for a group of grammar schools or a stand alone grammar school they shall notify the governing body of that school of that fact and of the transfer age group for the group of grammar schools or stand alone grammar school in question.

(4) Where the designated body have determined, in the light of information obtained under regulation 19 that a school has ceased to be a feeder school for a group of grammar schools or a stand alone grammar school they shall notify the governing body of that school.

(5) The date referred to in paragraph (2)(b)(i) is the date such that, if a petition had been received on that date, regulation 9(3) would have applied in relation to at least one school and, as a result of its application, the electoral list which would have applied for the purpose of determining whether a parent was a relevant eligible parent would have been that for the school term after the summer holidays.