Sch 4 para 3 Parental preferences
(1) Section 86 of the 1998 Act (parental preferences) is amended as follows. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) After subsection (2) there is inserted— (2A) Arrangements made under subsection (1) may allow the parent of a child to express preferences for more than one school; but nothing in this section requires the admission authority for a maintained school for which a child’s parent has expressed a preference to offer the child admission to the school if, in accordance with a scheme adopted or made by virtue of section 89B, the child is offered admission to a different school for which the parent has also expressed a preference. (4) In subsection (3)— (a) at the end of paragraph (a) there is inserted “ or ” , and (b) paragraph (b) is omitted. (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) Subsection (6) shall cease to have effect. (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (8) In subsection (9), for “provide for all pupils admitted to the school” there is substituted “ , or arrangements such as are mentioned in subsection (3B), provide for all pupils selected under the arrangements ” .