Citation, commencement and application

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Variation of Admission Arrangements) (England) ( Amendment ) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1 ^st May 2005

(2) These regulations apply only in relation to England.

Amendment of the Regulations

2. —(1)The Education (Variation of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2002 ( 2 ) shall be amended as follows—

(2) In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation)—

(a) after the definition “the Act” there shall be inserted—

“ “admission forum” means a body established by a local education authority under section 85” ( 3 )

“admission forum protocol” means an arrangement of the admission forum for sharing the admission of hard to place children and which apply to all admission authorities and Academies within the area of a local education authority which have agreed to comply with such an arrangement. ”

(b) after the definition of “admission number” there shall be inserted—

“ “hard to place children” means any child or any category of children as agreed to be included in the admission forum protocol on the basis that the children would otherwise be likely to be refused admission to a suitable school. ”

(3) In regulation 3 (Variation of admission arrangements) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—

“ (3) An admission authority may vary its admission arrangements to the extent that such variation is necessary to give effect to an admission forum protocol for sharing hard to place children. ”

(4) In regulation 4 (Referral of variations to the adjudicator) in the third line of paragraph (1) for “regulation 3” substitute “regulation 3(2)”