SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4Admission arrangements
I13Parental preferences
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Section 86 of the 1998 Act (parental preferences) is amended as follows.
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I23
After subsection (2) there is inserted—
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Arrangements made under subsection (1) may allow the parent of a child to express preferences for more than one school; but nothing in this section requires the admission authority for a maintained school for which a child’s parent has expressed a preference to offer the child admission to the school if, in accordance with a scheme adopted or made by virtue of section 89B, the child is offered admission to a different school for which the parent has also expressed a preference.
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In subsection (3)—
a
at the end of paragraph (a) there is inserted “
or
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, and
b
paragraph (b) is omitted.
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I36
Subsection (6) shall cease to have effect.
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I28
In subsection (9), for “provide for all pupils admitted to the school” there is substituted “
, or arrangements such as are mentioned in subsection (3B), provide for all pupils selected under the arrangements
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