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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-initial-governing-instruments-amendment-regulations-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2094",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1994 (“the principal Regulations”).\nThe Regulations amend the initial instrument of government for grant-maintained schools set out in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (regulation 2). These include amendments to correct references in the initial instrument of government. The Regulations also amend Appendix 2 to the initial instrument of government (which makes provision as to the proceedings and meetings of committees of governing bodies of grant-maintained schools).\nThe Regulations amend the initial articles of government set out in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (regulation 3). The Regulations insert new Articles 8A and 8B in the initial articles of government. Article 8A requires the governing body to publish for each school year particulars of the arrangements for admission of pupils to the school, and particulars with respect to appeals against decisions refusing admission to the school. Article 8B makes provision as to the manner and timing of the publication of such particulars.\nThe Regulations amend the provisions of the initial articles of government relating to the exclusion of pupils. The Regulations insert a new paragraph (4) in Article 10 so as to require the head teacher, where he permanently excludes a pupil, to inform the local education authority to whose area the pupil belongs of that fact. Article 11(2) is amended so that the Discipline Committee of the governing body are required to inform the local education authority to whose area the pupil belongs when they decide not to reinstate the pupil following his permanent exclusion. Article 11(3) is amended so as to require the Discipline Committee to give a pupil or his parent additional information in relation to the making of appeals following the pupil’s permanent exclusion from the school. Article 11 is also amended so as to impose time-limits on the actions required to be carried out by the Discipline Committee under that Article.\nThe Regulations also amend the provisions of the initial articles of government relating to appeals against decisions not to reinstate permanently excluded pupils. Article 12 is amended so as to prevent an appeal against a decision of the Discipline Committee not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil to be made after the fifteenth school day after the date on which the pupil or his parent was informed of the Discipline Committee’s decision. Appendix 2 to the initial articles of government (which also relates to appeals) is amended so as to insert a new paragraph 2A in that Appendix. Paragraph 2A requires an appeal committee, hearing an appeal against a decision of the Discipline Committee, to meet to consider the appeal within the period ending with the fifteenth school day after the day on which the appeal is lodged, or such shorter period as may be determined by the governing body. Under new paragraph 2A(2), the governing body may extend the period for appealing if the pupil or (if he is under the age of 18) his parent so requests. The Regulations also insert a new paragraph 5A in Appendix 2 to the initial articles of government to require an appeal committee to communicate its decision on an exclusion appeal within the period ending with the seventeenth school day after the day on which the appeal is lodged, or such shorter period as the governing body may determine. That period may be extended where the period under paragraph 2A is extended at the request of the pupil or his parent.\nThe Regulations also insert a new Article 12A in the initial articles of government. That Article provides for certain provisions relating to admissions, and appeals against admissions decisions, (Articles 8(1) and (4) and 12(1)(a)) not to apply in relation to the admission for nursery education of children under the age of five years, and in relation to the admission of children with statements of special educational needs.",
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