# The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1993, Paragraph 11: Reinstatement of excluded pupils


(1) The Governing Body shall establish a committee to be known as the Discipline Committee for the purpose of exercising the functions assigned to it by this Article.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Discipline Committee, where they have been informed of the permanent exclusion of a pupil from the School —
(a) to consider whether he should be reinstated immediateley, reinstated by a particular date or not reinstated;
(b) where they consider he should be reinstated, to give the appropriate direction to the Head Teacher; and
(c) where they consider he should not be reinstated, to inform
(i) the pupil, if he is aged eighteen years or over, or, if he is not, a parent of his; and
(ii) the Head Teacher, of their decision.
(3) In any case to which paragraph (2)(c) above applies, the Discipline Committee shall also inform the pupil or (as the case may be) his parent of —
(a) his right to appeal against the decision permanently to exclude the pupil; and
(b) the arrangements made by the Governing Body in accordance with Article 12 for enabling an appeal to be made against any decision permanently to exclude a pupil from the School.
(4) The Head Teacher shall comply with any direction given by the Discipline Committee in accordance with paragraph (2)(b) above.
(5) It shall be the duty of the Head Teacher, where he has excluded a pupil from the School for a fixed period —
(a) for more than five school days (in the aggregate) in any one school term, or
(b) in circumstances in which the pupil would, as a result of his exclusion from the School, lose an opportunity to take any public examination,
to comply with any direction for the reinstatement of the pupil given by the Discipline Committee.
(6) Where the Head Teacher has been informed by the Discipline Committee in accordance with paragraph (2)(c) above that a pupil is not to be reinstated, he shall (without delay) inform the local education authority to whose area the pupil belongs of the decision to exclude him from the School.
(7) For the purposes of paragraph (6) above, any question whether a pupil belongs to the area of a particular local education authority shall be determined by the Head Teacher, as it would for the purposes of the Education Act 1980, in accordance with the regulations made under section 38(5) of that Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3102/schedule/2/paragraph/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-initial-governing-instruments-regulations-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-11
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