48 Co-ordination of admission arrangements

48  Co-ordination of admission arrangements

After section 89A of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c 31) there is inserted—

“89B Co-ordination of admission arrangements

(1)     Regulations may require a [local authority]—

(a)     to formulate, for any academic year in relation to which prescribed conditions are satisfied, a qualifying scheme for co-ordinating the arrangements for the admission of pupils to maintained schools in their area, and

(b)     to take prescribed action with a view to securing the adoption of the scheme by themselves and each governing body who are the admission authority for a maintained school in their area.

(2)     Subject to subsection (3), the Secretary of State may make, in relation to the area of a [local authority] and an academic year, a scheme for co-ordinating the arrangements, or assisting in the co-ordination of the arrangements, for the admission of pupils to maintained schools in that area.

(3)     A scheme may not be made under subsection (2) in relation to a [local authority] and an academic year if, before the prescribed

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