Learning and Skills Bill [H.L.] — 14 Mar 2000 at 19:45

Schedule 8 [Amendments]:

[Amendment No. 150 had been withdrawn from the Marshalled List.]

moved Amendment No. 151:

Page 85, line 3, at end insert--

(". After section 109 of that Act insert--

"New grammar schools.

109A.--(1) This section has effect for enabling the admission arrangements of a school to be revised so that the school has selective admission arrangements which--

(a) make provision for selection by ability; or

(b) make provision for one or more of the following, namely--

(i) any selection by ability authorised by section 101;

(ii) any selection by aptitude authorised by section 102;

(iii) any selection by ability such as is mentioned in section 99(2)(c).

(2) Any such revision of the admission arrangements of a school shall be one of the alterations to a maintained school which are prescribed for the purposes of section 28.

(3) Regulations may provide that in their application to any proposals for any such revision of the admission arrangements of a school, any provision of section 28 or Schedule 6 shall have effect with such modifications as may be prescribed."").

On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 151) shall be agreed to?

Their Lordships divided: Contents, 53; Not-Contents, 152.

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