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(1) The title of these Regulations is the Education (Amendments Relating to the Co-ordination of School Admission Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 4 November 2024.
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(1) The Education (Co-ordination of School Admission Arrangements and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1)—
(a) in the definition of “Welsh Minister scheme”, for “subsection” substitute “section”, and
(b) omit the definition of “working day”.
(3) In regulation 7(3)(a), for “578(1)” substitute “578”.
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In the School Information (Wales) Regulations 2011, for sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5A of Schedule 2 substitute—“
(2) In this paragraph—
 “application” (“cais”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the 2024 Regulations;
 “common application form” (“ffurflen gais gyffredin”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the 2024 Regulations;
 “normal admission round” (“cylch derbyn arferol”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(2) of the 2024 Regulations;
 “the scheme for co-ordinating admission arrangements of the local authority” (“y cynllun ar gyfer cydlynu trefniadau derbyn yr awdurdod lleol”) means—
(a) a scheme adopted by a local authority pursuant to regulation 4(1) of the 2024 Regulations, or
(b) a scheme imposed on the local authority by the Welsh Ministers pursuant to section 89B(2) of the 1998 Act.”
Lynne Neagle
Cabinet Secretary for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers
7 October 2024