{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/25",
  "legislation_title": "Education and Skills Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-skills-act-2008",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Attendance panel",
  "text": "(1) A local authority in England must establish a panel (an “attendance panel”), constituted in accordance with regulations.\n(2) An attendance panel of a local authority in England has the following functions—\n(a) functions conferred on it by virtue of section 49 in relation to appeals against attendance notices;\n(b) functions conferred on it by virtue of section 50(6)(b);\n(c) functions conferred on it by section 52(5) and (6);\n(d) functions conferred on it by virtue of section 54 in relation to appeals against fixed penalty notices.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1)—\n(a) must require a local authority to secure that any person who chairs an attendance panel is not a member of the authority; and\n(b) may make provision for the payment by the local authority of allowances to members of an appeal panel.\n(4) Regulations made by virtue of subsection (3)(b) may provide for any of the provisions of sections 173 to 174 of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) or (in relation to Wales) Part 8 of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (allowances to members of local authorities and other bodies) to apply with prescribed modifications in relation to members of an attendance panel.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), Sch. 2 para. 15(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(4) inserted (W.) (30.4.2012) by Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4), s. 178(3), Sch. 3 para. 7; S.I. 2012/1187, art. 2(1)(q)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:44.607074+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."
}