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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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 ”, and

b

paragraph (b) is omitted.

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Subsection (6) shall cease to have effect.

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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 ”.