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  Education Bill - [2nd Allotted Day] - New Clause 1 - No requirements of attendance at a place of religious worship
  
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  <p>The No voters rejected a new clause to the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2002/ukpga_20020032_en_1">Education Bill</a> that would have required religious state schools to accept a minimum of 25% of non-religious applicants. It also states that pupils admitted to state schools, and their parents and guardians, do not have to attend a place of worship or belong to a particular faith.</p>
  
  <p>The amendment reads as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>(1) It shall not be required, as a condition of a pupil being admitted to a maintained school, that:
  
  <p>(a) he must attend or abstain from attending a place of religious worship;</p>
  
  <p>(b) his parents or guardians must attend or abstain from attending a place of religious worship.</p>
  
  <p>(c) the pupil, his parent(s) or guardian(s) belong to any particular faith or denomination.</p>
  
  <p>(2) The local education authority after consultation with the admission forum may by regulation authorise that, notwithstanding (1) a maintained school may admit between 20 per cent. and 75 per cent. of pupils who have a particular faith or denomination.</p>
  
  <p>(3) Where the local education authority is informed that there are insufficient applications to a particular maintained school to fill the available places, the local education authority may after consultation with the admission forum authorise an increase up to 100 per cent. in the numbers of pupils admitted who are of the particular faith or denomination of the maintained school in question.</blockquote></p>
  
  
  
  
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