# Education Act 1996, Section 433: Time for admission of pupils.

Extent: E+W

(1) Section 14 (which requires a local authority to secure that sufficient schools for providing primary and secondary education are available for their area) shall not be construed as imposing any obligation on the proprietor of a school to admit children as pupils otherwise than at the beginning of a school term.
(2) Where, however, a child was prevented from entering a school at the beginning of a term—
(a) by his being ill or by other circumstances beyond his parent’s control, or
(b) by his parent’s having been then resident at a place from which the school was not accessible with reasonable facility,
the school’s proprietor is not entitled by virtue of subsection (1) to refuse to admit him as a pupil during the currency of the term.
(3) In cases where subsection (2) does not apply, the governing body of a school maintained by a local authority shall comply with any general directions given by the authority as to the time of admission of children as pupils.
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(5) Despite section 7 (duty of parent of child of compulsory school age to cause him to receive full-time education), a parent is not under a duty to cause a child to receive full-time education during any period during which, having regard to subsections (1) and (2), it is not practicable for the parent to arrange for him to be admitted as a pupil at a school.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/433 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-433
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