The Education (Proposals for Grammar Schools to cease to have Selective Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999

Schools to be disregarded where relevant proposals fall to be implemented

5.—(1) This regulation applies where relevant proposals have fallen to be implemented under paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the Act and in this regulation–

(a) “the disregarded school” means the school in relation to which the proposals fall to be implemented; and

(b) “the relevant date” is the date on which the proposals were approved under paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Act.

(2) Where the disregarded school is a stand alone grammar school and a petition for a feeder school ballot which relates to the disregarded school is received by the designated body after the relevant date, that petition shall not be a valid petition.

(3) Where the disregarded school is a grammar school in a group of grammar schools and a petition for a feeder school ballot which relates to that group is received after the relevant date, the petition shall be treated as relating to the group of grammar schools excluding the disregarded school and accordingly–

(a) a school registered parent shall not be a relevant eligible parent in accordance with regulation 9(1) to (5) of the Ballot Regulations unless he has at least one child, who does not fall to be disregarded under regulation 4(6) of those Regulations, who is a pupil at a school which is a feeder school for the group excluding the disregarded school; and

(b) registered parents at any school which was a feeder school for the group including the disregarded school but is not a feeder school for the group excluding the disregarded school shall not be included in the parent population for the purpose of regulation 7(5) of the Ballot Regulations.

(4) Where the ballot result date of an area ballot is after the relevant date the ballot shall not relate to the disregarded school.