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(1) The title of these Regulations is the School Admissions (Common Offer Date) (Wales) Regulations 2013.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 8 July 2013.
(3) Regulation 3 applies in relation to a decision made by an admission authority of a maintained secondary school to offer or refuse a child admission to the school for the academic year 2015/2016 and subsequent academic years.
(4) Regulation 4 applies in relation to a decision made by an admission authority of a maintained primary school to offer or refuse a child admission to the school for the academic year 2018/2019 and subsequent academic years.
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(1) In these Regulations—
 "the SSFA 1998" ("DSFfY 1998") means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
 "admission year" ("blwyddyn dderbyn") in relation to the admission of pupils to a relevant age group at schools during a particular academic year means that academic year;
 "composite prospectus" ("prosbectws cyfansawdd") means the composite prospectus that a local authority is required to publish under regulation 4 of the School Information (Wales) Regulations 2011 containing the information set out in Schedule 2 to those regulations and in the School Admissions Code.
 "offer date" ("dyddiad cynnig") means the date prescribed by regulations 3 and 4 when parents receive notice of the place their child has been allocated at a primary or secondary school;
 "offer year" ("blwyddyn gynnig") means the academic year immediately preceding the admission year;
 "School Admissions Code" ("Cod Derbyniadau Ysgol") means any code for school admissions under section 84 of the SSFA 1998;
 "working day" ("diwrnod gwaith") means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations an application is made in the course of a normal admissions round if —
(a) it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group; and
(b) it is not a late application or an in-year application.
(3) For the purpose of these Regulations an application is a late application if—
(a) it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group;
(b) it is submitted before the first day of the admission year;
(c) it is submitted after the date set out in the composite prospectus for the receipt of applications for admission to maintained schools; and
(d) a decision relating to the application is not made by an admission authority on or before the offer date.
(4) For the purposes of these Regulations an application is an in-year application if—
(a) it is for the admission of a child to a relevant age group and is submitted on or after the first day of the admission year; or
(b) it is for the admission of a child to an age group other than a relevant age group.
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(1) The prescribed day in the offer year on which the decision made by an admission authority to offer or refuse a child admission to a secondary school is communicated to the parent is 1 March.
(2) In any year in which 1 March is not a working day the prescribed day is the next working day.
(3) Paragraph (1) only applies in relation to a decision made about an application made in the course of a normal admission round.
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(1) The prescribed day in  the offer year on which the decision made by an admission authority to offer or refuse a child admission to a primary school is communicated to the parent is 16 April.
(2) In any year in which 16 April is not a working day the prescribed day is the next working day.
(3) Paragraph (1) only applies in relation to a decision made about an application made in the course of a normal admission round.
Leighton Andrews
Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers
14 May 2013