{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-35B/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-35B/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/35B/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a child of compulsory school age has been excluded from a relevant school,\n(b) he remains for the time being a registered pupil at the school, and\n(c) the appropriate authority for the school has made arrangements for the provision of full-time education for him otherwise than at the school or at his home during the period of exclusion,\nparagraph 6 has effect as if the place at which the education is provided were a qualifying school and the child were a registered pupil at that school (and not at the school mentioned in paragraph (b)).\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) “relevant school” and “appropriate authority” have the same meaning as in section 444ZA (application of section 444 to alternative educational provision), and\n(b) in relation to a maintained school or a pupil referral unit, references in that sub-paragraph to exclusion are references to exclusion under section 51A of the Education Act 2002.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 35B inserted (1.9.2007 for the insertion of Sch. 35B para. 1 for specified purposes and paras. 2-10, 14, 15 for all purposes, 1.9.2008 in so far as not already in force) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 8; S.I. 2007/1801, art. 4(k); S.I. 2008/1971, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 35B para. 8(1)(c) substituted (1.9.2012) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(4), Sch. 1 para. 52(2); S.I. 2012/2197, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 35B para. 8(1) substituted (1.9.2012) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(4), Sch. 1 para. 52(3); S.I. 2012/2197, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 35B para. 8(2)(b) substituted (1.9.2012) by Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), s. 173(4), Sch. 1 para. 52(4); S.I. 2012/2197, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 35B para. 8(2)(b) substituted (1.9.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), s. 82(3), Sch. 1 para. 7; S.I. 2012/1087, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/35B/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:40.627017+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}