The School Admissions (Infant Class Sizes) (England) Regulations 2012

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“EA 1996” means the Education Act 1996(1);

“SSFA 1998” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;

“child with a statement” means a child in relation to whom a statement is maintained by a local authority under section 324(1) of EA 1996(2);

“suitable education”, in relation to a child, means efficient full-time education suitable to the child’s age, ability, and aptitude and any special educational needs that child may have.

(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a child is to be treated as having been admitted to a school outside a normal admission round where paragraph (3) or (4) applies.

(3) This paragraph applies where, at the time the child was admitted to the school, that child did not fall within an age group in which pupils are normally admitted to that school.

(4) This paragraph applies to a child where—

(a) at the time of that child’s admission to the school, the child fell within an age group in which pupils are normally admitted to the school;

(b) the number of pupils in that age group seeking admission to the school in the school year in which the child was first admitted to the school was greater than the number of pupils which the admission authority intended to admit to the school in that age group in that year; and

(c) the child was offered a place at the school after the time when the admission authority had determined, in accordance with the school’s admission arrangements, which children in that age group were to be admitted to the school.

(5) In paragraphs (2) to (4) references to a child’s admission to a school are references to the child’s admission to an infant class at the school.

(1)

1996 c.56.

(2)

Section 324(1) was amended by S.I. 2010/1158.