The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2008

Objections by appropriate persons

24.—(1) This regulation prescribes the objections that, by virtue of section 88H(2)(b), may not be referred under subsection 88H(2) by an appropriate person.

(2) An objection may not be referred under that subsection—

(a) if the substance of the objection is to seek an alteration to admission arrangements for a grammar school, which by virtue of section 104(4) may only be made in accordance with sections 105 to 109 (altering the school’s admission arrangements so that it no longer has selective admission arrangements); or

(b) in any case where the body seeking to make an objection are the governing body of a community or voluntary controlled school, responsibility for determining the admission arrangements for the school not having been delegated to them under section 88(1)(a)(ii), and the objection is to—

(i) the admission arrangements for any other community or voluntary controlled school in the relevant area (as defined in section 88F(4)) for which the local authority are the admission authority, or

(ii) the admission arrangements for the school for which they are the governing body, unless the substance of the objection relates to the determination of any admission number for that school.

(3) For the purposes of section 88H(6)(b) and this regulation “appropriate person” includes any person falling within regulation 12(2)(h).