# The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, Article 48: Registration of pupils at school

Extent: N.I.

(1) The proprietor of every school shall cause to be kept, in accordance with regulations, a register containing the prescribed particulars with respect to all pupils attending the school (whether they are registered pupils of the school or not) and regulations may—
(a) make provision for enabling the registers so kept to be inspected and extracts taken therefrom for the purposes of the Education Orders by persons duly authorised in that behalf under the regulations; and
(b) require persons by whom registers are so kept to make to the Department and to boards such periodical or other returns as to the contents thereof as may be prescribed.
(2) A person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) or of regulations thereunder shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
(3) Regulations may prescribe the procedure by which a child may become a registered pupil at a school and the procedure by which a child may be withdrawn from a school at which he is a registered pupil. . . .
(3A) A child registered as a pupil at a school in any school year may not in that year be registered as a pupil at another school unless he is first withdrawn from the school at which he is registered.
Para. (4) rep. by 1996 NI 1

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/594/article/48 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-libraries-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-48
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