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The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements and Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2012

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Action to be taken by a local authority to secure adoption of a qualifying scheme

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27.—(1) This regulation prescribes for the purposes of section 88M(1)(b)(1) the action to be taken by a local authority with a view to securing the adoption of a qualifying scheme by themselves and each governing body who are the admission authority for a primary school or secondary school in their area.

(2) The local authority must formulate a qualifying scheme by 1st January in the relevant determination year.

(3) Where—

(a)the qualifying scheme is substantially different from the qualifying scheme adopted for the preceding academic year, or

(b)the local authority have not consulted on a qualifying scheme adopted in the previous seven years,

the local authority must consult the bodies mentioned in paragraph (4).

(4) The bodies to be consulted are—

(a)each governing body who are the admission authority for a school in the local authority’s area; and

(b)any other local authority as the authority thinks appropriate.

(5) The consultation pursuant to paragraph (4)(b) must be undertaken with a view in particular to securing that the arrangements for the admission of pupils to schools in the areas of different local authorities are, so far as is reasonably practicable, compatible with each other.

(6) After the local authority have carried out any consultation required under this regulation they must determine the qualifying scheme (either in its original form or with such modifications as the authority think fit) for the academic year in question and must take all reasonable steps to secure its adoption by themselves and each governing body who are an admission authority that they consulted in relation to it.

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Section 88M(1) was amended by S.I. 2010/1158.

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