The Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998

Information to be given to the designated body

19.—(1) The governing body of each stand alone grammar school shall, within 10 school days of a request by the designated body, provide the designated body with the names of the schools which in the school year in which the request is made are feeder schools for that grammar school.

(2) The governing body of each grammar school in a group of grammar schools shall, within 10 school days of a request by the designated body, provide the designated body with details of all the schools from which pupils have transferred to the grammar school, disregarding any pupils who fall to be disregarded under regulation 6(2), during the school years specified in the request and the number of pupils who transferred from each such school to the grammar school.

(3) The governing body of each grammar school in a group of grammar schools or stand alone grammar school shall, within 10 school days of a request by the designated body, inform the designated body of the transfer age group for the school.

(4) The governing body or proprietor of each relevant school shall, subject to paragraph (5), within 15 school days of a request by the designated body, provide the designated body with the electoral list for the school as it has effect on the date 10 school days after the date of the request.

(5) Where however the governing body or proprietor of a relevant school have already during a petition period provided the designated body with the electoral list for the school and a further request under paragraph (4) is received during the same petition period, the governing body or proprietor may comply with paragraph (4) by providing details of the changes to the electoral list which have taken place since the date of the electoral list which was previously provided (or, as the case may be, since the date on which details of changes were previously provided under this paragraph) as those changes have effect on the date 10 school days after the date of the request; and any reference in these Regulations to “the electoral list” shall, where the context requires, be a reference to the list as amended in the light of changes referred to above.

(6) The governing body or proprietor of each relevant school shall, within 10 school days of a request by the designated body—

(a) provide the designated body with details of the dates on which the terms are expected to start and end in any school year specified in the request; and

(b) provide the designated body with any other information they may reasonably require to verify information given under paragraphs (1) to (4) or to enable the designated body to comply with regulation 7(2) or 18.

(7) Any local education authority—

(a) specified in Schedule 1, or

(b) which maintains a grammar school in a group or a stand alone grammar school,

and the councils of London borough of Sutton and the county of Surrey shall, within 10 days of a request by the designated body, provide the designated body with such information as they may reasonably require to comply with regulation 7(2) or 18.